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Title: Productivity, Safety, and Regulation in Coal Mining: Evidence from Disasters and Fatalities

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: Coal mining is a dangerous occupation where safety is an important output. Fatalities and disasters may change future accident costs at or near a mine. We use this variation to understand the tradeoffs between mineral output and safety. We find that government inspections and penalties increase after fatalities and less-severe accident rates decrease by 10%. For mines in the state of a disaster, less-severe accident rates decrease by 23%, and fatalities by 68%, representing up to $2 per hour worked, with limited evidence that mineral productivity falls up to $14 per hour worked and that managers employed increases by 11%.

Url: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~gowrisan/pdf_papers/productivity_safety_coal_mining.pdf

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Authors: Gowrisankaran, Gautam; He, Charles; Lutz, Eric; Burgess, Jefferey L.

Publisher: University of Arizona

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