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 shale gas boom revolutionized the energy sector through hydraulic fracturing (fracking).
High levels of energy production force communities, states, and nations to consider the …

Air pollution at any given time is unequally distributed across locations. Average
concentrations of fine particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter (PM2. 5) …

We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of
outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of …

We track the geographic and temporal propagation of local economic shocks from new oil
and gas production generated by hydrofracturing. Each million dollars of new production …

Do natural resources benefit producer economies, or is there a “Natural Resource Curse”,
perhaps as the crowd-out of manufacturing productivity spillovers reduces long-term …

We estimate the impact of the Green Revolution in the developing world by exploiting
exogenous heterogeneity in the timing and extent of the benefits derived from high-yielding …

We investigate whether an increase in the potential earnings of men leads to an increase in
marriage and a reduction in nonmarital births by exploiting the positive economic shock …

The impact of unconventional oil and gas development on water quality is a major
environmental concern. We built a large geocoded database that combines surface water …

We investigate the short-and long-term effects of a natural gas boom in an economy where
energy can be produced with coal, natural gas, or clean sources and the direction of …