Local Economic Impacts of Coal Mining in the United States 1870 to 1970
利用新收集的百年县级数据，研究发现煤矿开采在最初十年对人口和制造业有正面影响，但随后几十年转为负面，表明资源诅咒是长期现象。
This article expands upon the current “resource curse” literature by using newly collected county data, spanning over a century, to capture the short- and long-run effects of coal mining activity. It provides evidence that increased levels of coal production had positive net impacts on county-level population and manufacturing activity over an initial ten-year span, which become negative over the subsequent decades. The results provide evidence that any existence of a “resource curse” on local areas due to coal mining is a long-run phenomenon, and in the short run there are potential net benefits.