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 drilling phase of oil and natural gas development is a growing area of environmental
justice (EJ) research, particularly in the United States. Its emergence complements the …

To pay for environmental and public infrastructure costs associated with shale gas wells,
Pennsylvania introduced a per-well impact fee despite concerns that it would discourage …

In order to share the benefits of oil production with people living in extraction areas, the oil
industry targets social development investments and projects to communities most affected …

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 …

This study analyzes the correlation between oil and gas firms and their contribution to
regional development in the Brazilian southeast coastal region and in the State of Texas …

With the shale revolution, annual oil and gas production in the United States grew by 69
percent from 2005 to 2014, and almost 67 percent of the production occurred on farmland in …

The localized impacts of shale gas and tight oil development are often framed in terms of
income, employment, and economic development. These impacts may take various forms …

National-level studies present the development techniques and challenges of sustaining
energy-rich economies, particularly those in the developing world. However, examples of …

Over the past decade, directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing enabled an
unconventional oil and gas extraction (UOGE) boom in many regions of the United States …