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Title: The Detrimental Impact of Natural Resource Development on Rural American Economic Prosperity from 2000-2015

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Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: Research suggests increased reliance upon natural resource development will lead to decreases in local income, increases in inequality, and elevated poverty in the United States of America. Natural resource development generally takes two forms, extractive (e.g. oil and gas, mining, timber) and non-extractive (e.g. tourism, recreation, real estate). However, research has largely focused on extractive development. This paper expands literature by demonstrating the non-linear impacts both extractive and non-extractive natural resource development—operationalized as county-level employment share—had on per capita income, local income inequality, and poverty in the rural counties of the contiguous United States from 2000 to 2015 using spatial Durbin fixed effects models. Findings suggest dependence upon neither form of natural resource development resulted in increased economic prosperity in rural America from 2000 to 2015, with the impacts of nonextractive development being far more negative than hypotheized.

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Authors: Mueller, J. Tom

Conference Name: Sociology of Development Annual Meeting 2019

Publisher Location: Notre Dame, IN

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Topics: Land Use/Urban Organization, Natural Resource Management, Poverty and Welfare

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