A primary way that natural resources affect a locality is through the demand for labor, with
greater extraction requiring more workers. Shifts in labor demand can be measured through …

The discourseon the impact of natural resource endowment and its effect on financial
development has been an important research area in the last few decades. This study …

The authors explore the educational response to fracking—a recent technological
breakthrough in the oil and gas industry—by taking advantage of the timing of its diffusion …

I estimate the local effects of gold mining on human capital accumulation in contexts where
small-scale and illegal mining is prevalent. Evidence is based on high-resolution imagery of …

Whether improved local economic conditions lead to better student outcomes is theoretically
ambiguous and will depend on how schools use additional revenues and how students and …

Fossil fuel infrastructure has important land-use impacts within the United States, including
the environmental consequences of affected land that persists beyond the lifespan of wells …

This study investigates the hypothesis that the abundance of mineral resources could
translate to a resource curse for African oil-rich countries using the panel threshold model …

Resource booms may reduce human capital accumulation. They can increase the
opportunity costs of education by favoring low-skilled jobs, thus making it optimal for …

This paper examines how college students in the United States altered their college majors
during the energy boom and bust of the 1970s and 1980s. We focus on petroleum …

The development of cost-effective technologies, along with high crude oil and natural gas
prices, accelerated shale oil and gas extraction in the United States in the early 2000s. We …