Making Shale Development Work for Ohio

The “resource curse” is the term coined for the seemingly counterintuitive occurrence of slow long-term economic growth in regions rich in natural resources. In this series from the C. William Swank Program in Rural-Urban Policy at The Ohio State University, Weinstein and Partridge examined the expected short-run effects on employment and income of the coming shale oil and gas boom in Ohio. This report takes the analysis a step further by examining the long-run implications.