When Do Natural Resources Harm Fiscal Health? Evidence from the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12805263 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Douglas A Carr (0000-0003-1477-4632, corresponding author), Matthew Fails (0000-0003-3371-3026) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 878-911 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-06 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politics & Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1555-5623 • E-ISSN: 1747-1346 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/polp.12271 |
| OpenAlex | W2899911756 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 40 |
Do natural resources have harmful economic consequences? This question is central to the interdisciplinary “resource curse” literature, but important questions remain unanswered. At the same time, the discovery of new resource deposits around the world and technological developments that enable greater resource extraction make understanding the dynamics of the resource curse even more pressing. This article addresses these issues by focusing on the relationship between resource abundance and fiscal outcomes, which we argue more accurately reflects the causal mechanisms emphasized in existing research than aggregate economic outcomes like increases in gross domestic product per capita. We describe a variety of hypotheses linking resource abundance to fiscal health, including how political and institutional factors can either mitigate or exacerbate the effect of resource wealth, and test these arguments using state‐level data from the United States encompassing the years 1992‐2014. This focus on subnational variation helps minimize some of the limitations of the cross‐country comparisons that have dominated the prior literature. Our regression results suggest that, contrary to the most pessimistic theories, resource wealth is often associated with stronger fiscal performance at the state level. However, a number of factors, including levels of political polarization, legislative term limits, and lower wage growth, negate these benefits. Related Articles: Khodr , Hiba . 2014 . “.” Politics & Policy 42 (): 271 ‐ 310 . https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12068 Day , Jonathan , and Keith Boeckelman . 2012 . “.” Politics & Policy 40 (): 320 ‐ 338 . https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2012.00347.x Prier , Eric , and Kevin Wagner . 2009 . “.” Politics & Policy 37 (): 101 ‐ 125 . https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2008.00163.x
Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Gross domestic product · Harm · Natural resource · Per capita · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Public economics · Resource (disambiguation · Resource curse · Sociology · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Natural Resources and Economic Development
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| Citations per year | 0.2 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |