Full Title: Local Government Impacts of Unconventional Oil and Gas Development
Author(s): Alan J. Krupnick, Isabel Echarte, and Lucija Muehlenbachs
Publisher(s): Resources For the Future
Publication Date: June 1, 2017
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Description (excerpt):
This report reviews the academic literature analyzing the effect of unconventional oil and gas development on local public finance outcomes, including a review on the truck traffic literature, a specific subset of these local government outcomes (Table 1). We first examine several studies that conduct surveys and/or interviews of local government officials as well as analyze some financial data, such as tax revenue, in order to assess the changes in various cost and revenue sources for local governments, as well as any other challenges associated with unconventional oil and gas development. We additionally analyze two studies that assess effective tax rates across oil- and gas producing states using two different methods. Several of these studies focus on Pennsylvania, whereas the rest focus on oil and gas-producing areas across the United States