The effects of a natural gas boom on employment and income in Colorado, Texas, and Wyoming ☆

By J. Weber. 2012

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Income and employment effects of shale gas extraction windfalls: Evidence from the Marcellus region (2014, methodology): “Our results are similar to the previous academic empirical literature (e.g. Weber, 2012) and suggest minimal spillover to the local labor market from fracking technology used in the county.”
Coal Mining, Economic Development, and the Natural Resource Curse (2015, background): “Weber (2012) examines the shale gas boom in Colorado, Texas, and Wyoming and finds modest employment effects below those reported by industry sponsored research.”
The Economics of Shale Gas Development (2015, background): “Without testing for evidence of the Dutch disease, Weber (2012) finds that employment and income in counties in three Western states increased with natural gas production (with each million dollars in gas production, 2.35 jobs were created in the county of production).”
Fracking and environmental (in)justice in a Texas city (2015, background): “However, Weber (2012) shows that economic gains in SGD boom areas are much lower than industry-funded groups often report and Brown (2014) finds modest employment and wage gains in SGD counties.”
The Impact of Natural Resources: Survey of Recent Quantitative Evidence (2017, methodology): “…United States counties, this makes it a suitable setting for economic analysis.2 In a sample of 188 rural counties of Colorado, Texas, and Wyoming, Weber (2012) finds positive effects of the boom in natural gas extraction in booming counties as opposed to the relatively unaffected control…”
Local economic impacts of an unconventional energy boom: the coal seam gas industry in Australia† (2015, methodology): “On employment, Weber (2012) found that for each extra million dollars generated by the gas industry, there were 2.35 more jobs generated in the average production county.”
Linking the Price of Agricultural Land to Use Values and Amenities (2014, positive): “2013) or additional local employment and investment (Weber, 2012), the amenity value of nearby land values may decline.”
A Decade of Natural Gas Development: The Makings of a Resource Curse? (2014, methodology): “This is consistent with Weber (2012) who finds higher employment and income effects from a gas boom when using instrumental variables than when using OLS. The double-differencing explained earlier allows for areas that experienced much drilling in the 2000s to have had a different trend prior to the”