In this paper, we investigate the effects of a coal bust on urban growth. Using a difference-in-
differences framework, we find that China's 2012–2015 coal bust significantly reduced the …

Revenues from oil and gas development play a key role in the economies of many states in
the United States, but there are environmental concerns such as local air and water …

The disputes around fracking, and oil and gas policy, follow a long tradition of complicated
intergovernmental relationships. Proponents argue that fracking supports new and well …

Increased oil and natural gas production in the United States has decreased domestic
natural gas prices and global oil prices. The resulting greenhouse gas (GHG) impacts have …

The passage of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act will lead to a significant increase in US
wind and solar power investment. Renewable power generation requires more land than …

I examine the economic consequences of prisons on local communities using two
complementary approaches. The first uses prison openings during the 1990s across the US …

This paper studies the local economic impacts of rural hospital closures in the United States.
The analysis begins with a difference-in-differences approach using county-by-year panel …

Objectives This paper examines the impact of local economic activity on criminal behavior.
We build on existing research by relaxing the identification assumptions required for causal …

Consumer debt is an important vehicle for smoothing through income shocks. I study
localized income shocks from oil and gas development to investigate consumer response …

Policy reforms targeting federal oil and gas production are increasingly considered as
approaches to reduce CO2 emissions. Yet such policies are controversial, in part due to …