Who Needs a Fracking Education? The Educational Response to Low-Skill Biased Technological Change

Cascio, Elizabeth; Narayan, Ayushi

doi:10.3386/w21359

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“…For North Dakota and West Virginia the treatment year is 2006, where for Montana is 2007, though as discussed below changing these by one year does not affect the results. Cascio and Narayan (2015) use a common treatment year of 2006 for all labor markets examined because that is when national production from unconventional (horizontal and directional) wells began to increase dramatically; they confirmed with event analysis that significant fracking did not begin before 2006. Munasib and Rickman (2015) report that changing the treatment one year in either direction did not much change their SCM results because the intensity of fracking increased over the treatment period, producing larger effects later in the period.…”

Section: Implementation Of the Synthetic Control Methodsmentioning

confidence: 57%

“…Montana and North Dakota had negative relative male high school attainment treatment effects of 2.5 and 1.2 percentage points, respectively, while West Virginia had a positive relative effect of 3.6 percentage points. Thus, we find slight support for the high school findings of Cascio and Narayan (2015) in two of our three cases. There was not any differential effect on college attainment by gender in West Virginia and positive relative effects in the other two states.…”

Section: Differential Effects By Gendermentioning

confidence: 54%

“…With a sufficiently long preintervention period, the matching on pre-intervention characteristics and outcomes in SCM 1 The nonmetropolitan employment shares for Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia are 0.65, 0.52 and 0.39, respectively. The other states listed by Cascio and Narayan (2015) as possessing clusters of high oil and gas reserves, with the shares presented in parentheses are Louisiana (0.17), Oklahoma (0.36), Pennsylvania (0.12) and Texas (0.13). Source of total state employment, including by metropolitan and nonmetropolitan shares: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, State and Local Personal Income (www.bea.gov, accessed September 20, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Among the states listed by Cascio and Narayan (2015) as possessing clusters of high oil and gas reserves based on btu contents, these three are small and had the largest nonmetropolitan shares of total employment in the states in 2005, which makes it more likely that the effects of the shale boom 4 can be detected (Weinstein and Partridge, 2011;Munasib and Rickman, 2015). 1 Montana and North Dakota lie above the Bakken shale oil play, while West Virginia lies above the Marcellus shale natural gas play.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In a working paper, Cascio and Narayan (2015) examine the effects of fracking on high school dropout rates on local labor markets across the lower 48 states of the U.S. Local labor markets are defined as commuting zones, while data for the period of analysis come from the 2000 Census and the 2005-2013 American Community Surveys. They focus on high school dropout rates for 15-to 18-year olds to remove the potential effects of migration of educational cohorts on educational attainment in the local area.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Section: Implementation Of the Synthetic Control Methodsmentioning

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Section: Differential Effects By Gendermentioning

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Section: Implementation Of the Synthetic Control Methodsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Who Needs a Fracking Education? The Educational Response to Low-Skill Biased Technological Change

Cited by 81 publications

References 47 publications

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Is shale development drilling holes in the human capital pipeline?

How Local Economic Conditions Affect School Finances, Teacher Quality, and Student Achievement: Evidence from the Texas Shale Boom

The impact of oil and gas job opportunities during youth on human capital

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