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The European Coal Curse Revisited: Human Capital Deficit or Institutional Disfunction? Evidence from Spain

2025-09-01

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>This paper investigates the long-term socioeconomic consequences of coal mining in Spain, revisiting the hypothesis of a European “coal curse.” Using novel municipal-level data on historical extraction and contemporary development indicators, it challenges the widespread assumption that former mining regions are economically disadvantaged. Unlike earlier regional-level studies, I find n...

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Literature Corpus work: 8d166335-6256-58c5-9026-4904a0b12944
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7329832/v1

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