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Miners and Minors: The Impact of Mineral Resource Booms on Female Underage Employment

2025-12-01

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Resource booms are often associated with adverse distributional effects across economies. We exploit temporal and spatial variation generated by the copper boom in the 2000s to measure the effect of mineral resource extraction on human capital investment in Zambia. Combining data from repeated cross-sections of households and mines, we find that adolescent girls near mines have lower sc...

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Literature Corpus work: b6711a18-1cfc-5c36-b221-7d91845d3e12
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8078382/v1

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