Economic Geography and Special Interest Entrenchment: Evidence from the Shale Boom and U.S. State Campaign Finance

• In Event: Income Mobility, Economic Geography, and Growth

Brief Overview

We examine the effects of an industry's entry into a community on the industry's local political activities, as measured by its campaign donations. To vary the locations of an industry we use the recent US shale boom as a natural experiment.

Authors

• Richard DiSalvo, Princeton University

• Zhao Li, Princeton University