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Patriarchy, Pandemics and the Gendered Resource Curse Thesis: Evidence from Petroleum Geology

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  • Jubril Animashaun
  • Ada Wossink

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This paper examines features shared by societies built around oil and the impact of COVID19. For our cross-sectional analysis, we use epidemiological data on COVID-19, country-level long-run oil production data, and data on petroleum geology for econometric identification. We first document that a country’s long run oil production is associated with a significantly higher number of COVID-19 deaths. Exploring mechanisms, we find that women's election into political offices reduces the risk from COVID-19, but only in oil-poor countries. Furthermore, we find robust evidence that petroleum-wealth reduces the percentage of women in parliament. Oil contributes to a gender imbalance in the population and affects the labour force market participation rate for men more than for women. Overall, these findings highlight the risk and plausible mechanisms of COVID-19 vulnerability in oil-exporting countries. Policy makers should be aware of these effects.

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  • Jubril Animashaun & Ada Wossink, 2020. "Patriarchy, Pandemics and the Gendered Resource Curse Thesis: Evidence from Petroleum Geology," Economics Discussion Paper Series 2006, Economics, The University of Manchester.
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    • H5 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
    • I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • P48 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Other Economic Systems - - - Legal Institutions; Property Rights; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Regional Studies

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