This paper examines local labor market outcomes from an oil and gas boom in Texas. We examine two main outcomes across … gender, race, and ethnicity: the probability of employment in the oil and gas industry and the log wages of workers employed … outside the oil and gas industry. We find that men and women both gain employment in the oil and gas industry during booms …

the literature that explores cultural changes as a result of exogenous events. I use the oil crisis of the 1970s as a … for men. The probability to be never-married decreases in the American oil-producing areas immediately after the shock …. This effect persists after the oil boom is over but longer for men than for women. …

primarily by the legal status of the market in question. Offshore oil production, refining, and distribution in Brazil are …We document that oil-producing areas of Brazil experienced increases in crime during the period of increased economic … growth driven by the 2000s oil boom. This challenges the understanding that the impact of income shocks on crime is driven …