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 …

Technological innovations in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have enabled
tremendous amounts of natural gas to be extracted profitably from underground shale …

Shale gas, a new kind of energy, receives widespread attention worldwide, especially after
America's unprecedented success. It has become a hot issue to discuss shale gas pricing in …

Recently there has been a significant increase in the amount and frequency of seaweed
blooms of the holopelagic brown macroalgae Sargassum fluitans and natans (hereafter …

The energy transition away from fossil fuels, despite its substantial overall climate benefits,
presents significant transition risks for communities historically built around the fossil fuel …

This paper examines the effects of electricity generation from both types of energy sources
on sustainable state economic growth. For the analysis, this paper uses the panel data set …

This paper examines local labor market outcomes from an oil and gas boom. We examine
two main outcomes; the probability of employment and the log wages of workers employed …

Over the past decade the primary US crude benchmark, WTI, diverged considerably from its
foreign counterpart, Brent, sometimes selling at a steep discount. Some studies pointed to …

The rapid development of both wind power and of shale gas has been receiving significant
attention both in the media and among policy makers. Since these are competing sources of …

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 …