“…By focusing on a younger, less mobile population, we attempt to isolate educational decisions from residential ones, like previous studies of resource booms and busts (Black, McKinnish, and Sanders, 2005;Emery, Ferrer, and Green, 2012;Morissette, Chan, and Lu, 2015), and as noted, our survey data allow us to rule out migration as a confounder. By incorporating more states and multiple data sources, our analysis is also more comprehensive than concurrent studies of fracking's impacts on the schooling decisions of young people (e.g., Marchand and Weber, 2015;Rickman, Wang, and Winters, 2017;Zuo, Schieffer, and Buck, 2018). More states allow for consideration of the mediating effects of changes in state education policies like compulsory schooling laws.…”