Moving to Jobs: The Role of Information in Migration Decisions
利用县一级对水力压裂相关劳动力市场新闻的接触差异，发现获取就业信息会促进移民，平均使新闻提及地区的移民增加2.4%，对年轻、未婚、低学历男性影响更大，且对劳动力市场疲软地区效果最显著。
This paper exploits county-level variation in exposure to news about labor markets impacted by fracking to show that access to information about employment opportunities affects migration. Exposure to newspaper articles about fracking increased migration to areas mentioned in the news by 2.4% on average, concentrated among young, unmarried, less educated men. Commuting also increased, sentiment of the news matters, and TV news has an impact. Google searches for “fracking” and names of states specifically mentioned spike after news broadcasts about fracking. Counties experiencing weak labor markets are the most responsive, suggesting that these areas see large benefits to information provision.