I Want In On That: Community-level Policies for Unconventional Gas Development in New York

Nikolaos Zirogiannis, Jessica Alcorn, Jayne Piepenburg and John Rupp

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2015, vol. 44, issue 2, 31

Abstract: We investigate geospatial and socio-demographic attributes that explain differences in community-level policies affecting unconventional gas development (UGD) in New York. We examine local policy decisions (i.e., municipal bans, moratoria, and pre-emptive resolutions supporting development) through ordered probit models and middle-inflated and zero-inflated ordered probits to account for communities without UGD policies and estimate a spatial ordered probit to address spatial correlations between communities’ decisions. Our findings suggest that New York communities near Pennsylvania UGD are more likely to sup-port UGD. Communities that are predominantly Democrat or have more citizens who have bachelor’s de-grees are more likely to adopt policies opposing UGD.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Environmental Economics and Policy; Health Economics and Policy; Labor and Human Capital; Land Economics/Use; Research Methods/Statistical Methods; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.207736

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