Production of Natural Gas from Shale in Local Economies: A Resource Blessing or Curse?
研究了美国中部县页岩气开采对当地就业和经济的实际影响，发现天然气增产带来温和正面效应，未发现资源诅咒证据。
Innovations in the energy sector, particularly the extraction of natural gas from shale and tight gas formations using horizontal drilling and \\"fracking, \\" have helped increase U.S. reserves of natural gas to an estimated 70 years' worth of supply. Some theories suggest such a boom leads to a local resource \\"blessing\\" in employment and a positive spillover into the local economy while others suggest a boom leads to a resource \\"curse\\" for industries not related to the energy sector. Brown examines county-level labor market conditions in the central United States and finds a modest positive effect in counties where natural gas production has increased, and little evidence of a natural resource curse.