Energy-producing states confront numerous challenges related to the boom-and-bust of resource extraction, including substantial fluctuation in revenue produced by severance taxes. Revenues surge as drilling expands during booms, creating many pressures for immediate expenditure. This often sets up enormous strain during bust periods when revenues plunge as longer-term needs emerge. This paper, ...

This short article introduces the special issue “Chasing Beauty: Cosmetic Surgery and Skin Lightening in East Asia”. It highlights scale of interest current boom these procedures across Northeast Southeast Asia, outlines some questions causality interpretation arising from that boom. then summarises contents other five contributions to collection, identifies a number common themes conclusions t...

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Seabirds exposed to even a dime-sized amount of oil can die of hypothermia in cold-water regions, but despite repeated requests by Environment Canada, offshore oil operators are failing when it comes to self-monitoring of small oil spills, says new research. Chronic pollution from many small oil spills may have greater population-level impacts on seabirds than a single large spill, suggest rese...

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This study investigates the effects of an oil boom on firms’ performance using data from Canadian Annual Survey Manufactures. We exploit time variation booming natural resource sector activity in oil-producing area with location manufacturing plants. hypothesize that effect plants depends their spatial proximity, which allows us to create exogenous treatment variable. The outcome variables in...