148219 20260219090939.0 doi 10.17502/mrcs.v12i2.822 sideral 141696 ART-2024-141696 eng Perez Sindin, Xaquin S. Does anyone live here? Mine closures and depopulation in Spanish coal mining areas 2024 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted One of the most pressing socio-economic issues across EU countries has been the depopulation of a significant part of its territory. Less urbanized areas are perceived as non-attractive places to live and have been losing population steadily in the latest decades. For the case of Spain, this European-wise phenomenon has been exacerbated for several territories characterized by a large presence of primary and extractive industries in the past. We quantify empirically the contribution that the closure of the heavily subsidized coal mining had on the depopulation trends experienced in mining-intensive areas in Spain. This poses an interesting research question, since both non-mining and mining territories in Spain suffered a remarkable negative down trend in demographic terms since early nineties, which was the period on which the coal mining industry started to cease steadily its activity. Our empirical strategy relies on matching estimators that compare the demographic trend across mining-intensive and non-mining intensive municipalities in four provinces, controlling for observable characteristics and isolating the net effect of the “shock” originated by the termination of this mining activities. Our analysis finds a statistically significant and sizable negative effect on the fall of population for mining-intensive municipalities between 1991 and 2011. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/AEI/PID2020-114211RB-100 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.es 0.6 2024 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Fernandez Vazquez, Esteban Sanz-Hernández, Alexia Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-3284-6065 Alonso Domínguez, Ángel García Docampo, Manuel 4009 775 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Psicología y Sociología Área Sociología 12, 2 (2024), m241202a06 [14 pp.] Methaodos rev. cienc. soc. Methaodos. revista de ciencias sociales 2340-8413 639920 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/148219/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1869625 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/148219/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:148219 articulos driver 2026-02-19-09:00:44 ARTICLE