Oil, Population Growth, and the Resource Curse
Abstract
I find indications that an increase in a country’s oil endowment results in an increase
in its population growth rate, an increase in its fertility and birth rates, and a
decrease in its mortality rate. To explain these results, I conjecture that an increase
in oil endowment results in reduced female labor force participation, which increases
the population growth rate. Additionally, I find no significant, negative relationship
between a country’s per capita GDP growth rate and its oil endowment, when variations
in the population growth rate are controlled. This result and others affect the interpretation
of the “resource curse” concept.
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Gu, Tim (2009). Oil, Population Growth, and the Resource Curse. Honors thesis, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/1386.Collections
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