Natural resources, redistribution and Human capital formation

How do resource booms affect human capital accumulation? We exploit time and spatial variation generated by the commodity boom across local governments in Peru to measure the effect of natural resources on human capital formation. We explore the effect of both mining production and tax revenues on t...

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Autores Principales: Aguero, Jorge, Balcazar, Carlos, Maldonado, Stanislao, Ñopo, Hugo
Otros Autores: Facultad de Economía
Formato: Documento de trabajo (Working Paper)
Lenguaje:Español (Spanish)
Publicado: Universidad del Rosario 2016
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Acceso en línea:http://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/12045
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topic Economía
Economía
Recursos naturales::Aspectos Económicos
Capital humano::Aspectos Económicos
Minas::Aspectos Económicos
Medio ambiente
Resource booms
academic achievemen
intergovernmental transfers
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I25
O15
spellingShingle Economía
Economía
Recursos naturales::Aspectos Económicos
Capital humano::Aspectos Económicos
Minas::Aspectos Económicos
Medio ambiente
Resource booms
academic achievemen
intergovernmental transfers
H23
I25
O15
Aguero, Jorge
Balcazar, Carlos
Maldonado, Stanislao
Ñopo, Hugo
Natural resources, redistribution and Human capital formation
description How do resource booms affect human capital accumulation? We exploit time and spatial variation generated by the commodity boom across local governments in Peru to measure the effect of natural resources on human capital formation. We explore the effect of both mining production and tax revenues on test scores, finding a substantial and statistically significant effect for the latter. Transfers to local governments from mining tax revenues are linked to an increase in math test scores of around 0.23 standard deviations. We find that the hiring of permanent teachers as well as the increases in parental employment and improvements in health outcomes of adults and children are plausible mechanisms for such large effect on learning. These findings suggest that redistributive policies could facilitate the accumulation of human capital in resource abundant developing countries as a way to avoid the natural resources curse.
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Aguero, Jorge
Balcazar, Carlos
Maldonado, Stanislao
Ñopo, Hugo
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author Aguero, Jorge
Balcazar, Carlos
Maldonado, Stanislao
Ñopo, Hugo
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title Natural resources, redistribution and Human capital formation
title_short Natural resources, redistribution and Human capital formation
title_full Natural resources, redistribution and Human capital formation
title_fullStr Natural resources, redistribution and Human capital formation
title_full_unstemmed Natural resources, redistribution and Human capital formation
title_sort natural resources, redistribution and human capital formation
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