The Impact of Natural Resources: Survey of Recent Quantitative Evidence
这篇综述指出跨国实证研究存在计量困难，但近期研究利用大型石油发现等新数据、自然实验和国内分析，为评估资源意外收益的经济影响提供了更可靠的定量证据。
The cross-country empirical evidence for the natural resource curse is ample, but unfortunately fraught with econometric difficulties. A recent wave of studies on measuring the impact of natural resource windfalls on the economy exploits novel datasets such as giant oil discoveries to identify effects of windfalls, uses natural experiments and within-country econometric analysis, and estimates local impacts. These studies offer more hope in the search of quantitative evidence.