A decade of natural gas development: The makings of a resource curse?

Jeremy Weber

Resource and Energy Economics, 2014, vol. 37, issue C, 168-183

Abstract: Many studies find that areas more dependent on natural resources grow more slowly – a relationship known as the resource curse. For counties in the south-central U.S., I find little evidence of an emerging curse from greater natural gas production in the 2000s. Each gas-related mining job created more than one nonmining job, indicating that counties did not become more dependent on mining as measured by employment. Increases in population largely mitigated a rise in earnings per job and crowding out. Furthermore, changes in the adult population by education level reveal that greater production did not lead to a less educated population.

Keywords: Natural gas development; Resource curse; Multiplier (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q32 Q33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (113)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0928765513000882
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
Working Paper: A Decade of Natural Gas Development: The Makings of a Resource Curse? (2013)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:resene:v:37:y:2014:i:c:p:168-183

DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2013.11.013

Access Statistics for this article

Resource and Energy Economics is currently edited by J. F. Shogren and S. Smulders

More articles in Resource and Energy Economics from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().