Studies, reports, and resources examining the economic and property-related effects of oil and gas development on landowners and communities.
Muehlenbachs, et al. 2015. A study of Pennsylvania housing markets examining how shale-gas development affected property values. The results varied with factors including proximity to wells and whether homes relied on groundwater or piped water.
Bartik et al. 2019. A study examining both economic benefits and local costs associated with hydraulic fracturing. It considers employment, income, housing, local amenities, and other welfare effects rather than treating the economic effects as entirely positive or entirely negative.
Food and Water Watch. 2024. Despite false claims from the American Petroleum Institute (API) that the oil and gas industry supports 11 million jobs, the most recently available Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data show that direct employment in oil and gas extraction is near its lowest level in a decade.