Winning the Oil Lottery : The Impact of Natural Resource Extraction on Growth /

This paper provides evidence of the causal impact of oil discoveries on development. Novel data on the drilling of 20,000 oil wells in Brazil allows us to exploit a quasi-experiment: Municipalities where oil was discovered constitute the treatment group, while municipalities with drilling but no dis...

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Päätekijä: Cavalcanti, Tiago
Muut tekijät: Da Mata, Daniel, Toscani, Frederik
Aineistotyyppi: Aikakauslehti
Kieli:English
Julkaistu: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016.
Sarja:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2016/061
Linkit:Full text available on IMF