The Economic Aftermath of Resource Booms: Evidence from Boomtowns in the American West

@article{Jacobsen2016TheEA,
  title={The Economic Aftermath of Resource Booms: Evidence from Boomtowns in the American West},
  author={Grant D. Jacobsen and Dominic P. Parker},
  journal={Agricultural \& Natural Resource Economics eJournal},
  year={2016}
}
The current US oil and gas boom is injecting labour, capital and revenue into communities near reserves. Will these communities be cursed with lower long‐run incomes in the wake of the boom? We study the oil boom‐and‐bust cycle of the 1970s and 1980s to gain insights. Using annual data on drilling to identify western boom‐and‐bust counties, we find substantial positive local employment and income effects during the boom. In the aftermath of the bust, however, we find that incomes per capita… 
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