Coal mining, economic development, and the natural resources curse

Betz, Michael R.; Partridge, Mark D.; Farren, Michael D.; Lobao, Linda

doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2015.04.005

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“…A related fourth reason for growth to lag is that large scale mining and manufacturing regions are not associated with entrepreneurship and small business development (e.g., in the case of coal mining, see Glaeser et al, 2012 andBetz et al, 2014). The loss of entrepreneurship and small business development can limit local economic growth (Rupasingha and Goetz, 2013), especially in lagging regions (Stephens and Partridge, 2011).…”

Section: Boom-bust and The Natural Resource Cursementioning

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Unconventional Gas and Oil Development in the United States: Economic Experience and Policy Issues

Kelsey

Partridge

White

2016

Applied Eco Perspectives Pol

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This paper examines the economic experience of past energy booms and of current unconventional shale gas and oil development. It focuses on key economic characteristics of gas and oil development, such as its employment potential, the geography of such development, its boom-bust nature, and the economic experience with shale oil and gas development. This background is used to discuss important economic policy issues arising with unconventional oil and gas development, such as taxation, governmental use of those revenues, preemption, and equity in the distribution of costs and benefits. The paper concludes with economic policy recommendations for states and communities affected by such development.

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Section: Boom-bust and The Natural Resource Cursementioning

confidence: 99%

Unconventional Gas and Oil Development in the United States: Economic Experience and Policy Issues

Kelsey

Partridge

White

2016

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“…(EMSI) with information on county employment and earnings disaggregated at 4--digit NAICS level. EMSI data have been successfully used in various studies in recent years (Betz et al, 2015;Dorfman et al, 2011;Fallah et al, 2011;Fallah et al, 2014;Nolan et al, 2011). This allows us to measure oil--and gas--extraction employment, as well as other sectors of interest, more precisely (especially in calculating our energy and industry mix terms).…”

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Economics of modern energy boomtowns: Do oil and gas shocks differ from shocks in the rest of the economy?

Tsvetkova

Partridge

2016

Energy Economics

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The U.S. shale boom has intensified interest in how the expanding oil and gas sector affects local economic performance. Research has produced mixed results and has not compared how energy shocks differ from equal--sized shocks elsewhere in the economy. What emerges is that the estimated impacts of energy development vary by region, empirical methodology, as well as the time horizon that is considered. This paper captures these dimensions to present a more complete picture of energy boomtowns. Utilizing U.S. county data, we estimate the effects of changes in oil and gas extraction employment on total employment growth as well as growth by sector. We compare this to the effects of equal--sized shocks in the rest of the economy to assess whether energy booms are inherently different. The analysis is performed separately for nonmetropolitan and metropolitan counties using instrumental variables. We difference over 1--, 3--, 6--, and 10--year time periods to account for county fixed effects and to assess responses across different time horizons. The results show that in nonmetro counties, energy sector multiplier effects on total county employment first increase up to 6--year horizons and then decline for 10--year horizons. In metro counties, 1--year differences analysis suggests crowding out though the multipliers are insignificant in longer horizons. We also observe positive spillovers to the nontraded goods sector, while spillovers are small or negative for traded goods. Yet, equal--sized shocks in the rest of the economy produce more jobs on average than oil and gas shocks, suggesting that policymakers should seek more diversified development.

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“…Interestingly, Haggerty et al (2014) found that in counties where energy resource extraction was a short event, income per capita was indeed positively influenced. However a longer term specialisation in energy resource extraction can lead to an overall negative effect in average per capita income, due to decreased entrepreneurship and limited growth in other areas of coal-dominated economies (Betz et al, 2015).…”

Section: A Framework To Understand Impacts Of Energy Extraction On Homentioning

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A conceptual model of the socioeconomic impacts of unconventional fossil fuel extraction

Measham

Fleming

Schandl

2016

Global Environmental Change

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As global energy demand increases, the rapid expansion of the unconventional fossil fuel sector has triggered an urgent need for social, economic and policy research to understand and predict how this sector affects host communities and how governance systems can respond to changes presented by this sector. In response to this need, this paper addresses three linked objectives. The first is to review the literature on regional impacts of energy extraction, presented in the form of a framework of hierarchical effects. The second is to consider how these are playing out differently in the context of conventional compared with unconventional fossil fuels. The third is to draw attention to the institutional avenues for addressing these impacts, including an overview of the lessons from existing research on the human and policy dimensions associated with conventional energy industries. In particular, we consider the importance of multistakeholder dialogue, which plays an important role in how regions respond to the challenges brought about through extractive industries. Overall, we demonstrate that experiences from conventional energy development provide a useful starting point for navigating the human and policy dimensions of unconventional energy for host communities and discuss how these experiences differ when unconventional energy seeks to co-exist with other land uses such as agriculture. The paper draws attention to the dispersed nature of impacts (positive and negative) and how this may shape winners and losers from unconventional energy development, particularly in regions with pre-existing land uses such as agriculture.

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Coal mining, economic development, and the natural resources curse

Cited by 157 publications

References 31 publications

Unconventional Gas and Oil Development in the United States: Economic Experience and Policy Issues

Unconventional Gas and Oil Development in the United States: Economic Experience and Policy Issues

Economics of modern energy boomtowns: Do oil and gas shocks differ from shocks in the rest of the economy?

A conceptual model of the socioeconomic impacts of unconventional fossil fuel extraction

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