The Impact of the Mining Boom in Colombia: the case of the gold

Jorge Barrientos Marin (), Sebastián Ramírez and Elkin Tabares
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Sebastián Ramírez: Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana-UNAULA
Elkin Tabares: Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana-UNAULA

No 75, Grupo Microeconomía Aplicada from Universidad de Antioquia, Departamento de Economía

Abstract: To degree to which communities have benefited from natural resource or commodity booms from mining, has been a topic that has elicited interest from a broad spectrum researchers. In this paper we are interested in investigating the local impact of mining activity, specifically related to gold, on several socio-economic population indicators in Colombia. By performing several statistical procedures, we find evidence that before the gold boom, the producing municipalities had life standard indicators which, on average, were similar to other municipalities that did not experience the mining boom. Our estimates suggest that the effect of the gold boom have had questionable impact on the socio-economic indicators like MPI and UBN

Keywords: gold-mining; impact; spatial-spillover; socio economic indicators; treatment and control (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 C5 C52 O1 Q3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2016
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