Resource booms, state economic conditions, and child food security

Child food security is a longstanding concern to policymakers, exacerbated by economic slack and instability. We use the fracking era oil and gas boom of the early 2000s as a natural experiment to examine the importance of state economic conditions for child food security. The fracking boom was a la...

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Published inApplied economic perspectives and policy Vol. 45; no. 3; pp. 1734 - 1752
Main Authors Cho, Seung Jin, Kreider, Brent, Winters, John V.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston, USA Wiley Periodicals, Inc 01.09.2023
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Subjects
children
Economic conditions
Food security
Households
Hydraulic fracturing
Labor
Oil
poverty
regional economic conditions
resource booms
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Summary:Child food security is a longstanding concern to policymakers, exacerbated by economic slack and instability. We use the fracking era oil and gas boom of the early 2000s as a natural experiment to examine the importance of state economic conditions for child food security. The fracking boom was a large and unexpected economic shock that substantially improved labor market conditions in states with oil and gas resources but not elsewhere. We find that increases in oil and gas labor income improve child food security, especially for children with less educated parents and those residing in single‐mother households.
Bibliography:Editor in charge
Craig Gundersen
ISSN:2040-5790
2040-5804
DOI:10.1002/aepp.13327