| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21359 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21359 |
| Who Needs a Fracking Education? The Educational Response to Low-Skill Biased Technological Change | |
| Elizabeth U. Cascio; Ayushi Narayan | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-07-13 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We explore the educational response to fracking, a recent technological breakthrough in the oil and gas industry, taking advantage of the timing of its diffusion and spatial variation in shale reserves. We show that fracking has significantly increased relative demand for less-educated male labor and high school dropout rates of male teens, both overall and relative to females. Our estimates imply that, absent fracking, the teen male dropout rate would have been 1 percentage point lower over 2011-15 in the average labor market with shale reserves, implying an elasticity of school enrollment with respect to earnings below historical estimates. Fracking increased earnings more among young men than teenage boys, suggesting that educational decisions respond to improved earnings prospects, not just opportunity costs. Other explanations for our findings, like changes in school quality, migration, or demographics, receive less empirical support. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Labor Compensation ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Regional and Urban Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21359 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579031 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Elizabeth U. Cascio,Ayushi Narayan. Who Needs a Fracking Education? The Educational Response to Low-Skill Biased Technological Change. 2015. |
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