期刊
RESOURCES POLICY
卷 71, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2021.101994
关键词
Resources rents; Happiness; Resource curse
This study provides empirical evidence for the varying effects of natural resource rents on subjective well-being, which are influenced by factors such as political system, level of development, types of natural resources, and scale of happiness. The negative impact of natural resources on happiness is more pronounced in developing countries and countries with weak democratic systems.
We revisit the resource curse theory by providing empirical evidence for the effects of natural resource rents on subjective well-being. Using a cross-sectional model based on a global sample of 149 countries, we highlight that resource rents tend to reduce happiness but this effect differs according to (i) the political system and the level of development, (ii) the types and the measures of natural resources and (iii) the scale of happiness. Specifically, the negative effect of natural resources on happiness tends to be amplified in developing and weak democracy countries. Furthermore, the disaggregation of natural resource rents shows that while oil rents and natural gas rents have a significant negative effect, forest, coal and mineral rents do not. However, after using the quantile regression approach, we find that these effects vary at different intervals throughout the happiness distribution.
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