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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| Formaat: | Tijdschrift |
| Taal: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2016.
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| Reeks: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 2016/061 |
| Online toegang: | Full text available on IMF |