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 …

Commercial fisheries are often presumed to contribute meaningfully to local economies,
despite a lack of supporting empirical evidence. We address this gap by estimating local …

We provide the first estimates of the long-run effects of temporary resource booms on the
income of people, rather than places, focusing on the US oil boom and bust of the 1980s …

Horizontal drilling innovations revolutionized the US oil and gas industry and facilitated a
boom in production in the mid‐2000s in regions with shale and tight‐sands reservoirs. This …

Saudi Arabia has long been known for its rigidity and conservative image, influenced by the
close relationship between the kingdom and religious leaders. However, in the twenty-first …

Little is known about the spatial diffusion of the effects of economic shocks on the labor
market. We use the mining boom resulting from the unexpected increase in the international …

This paper investigates the effects of oil extraction on local labour market outcomes. Using
household-level data from the Ghana Living Standard Survey, we employ a difference-in …

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Timing is Everything: Labor Market Winners and Losers during Boom-Bust Cycles Erik Katovich …