Abstract
AbstractGovernments often compensate communities for hosting disruptive industries. Sometimes compensation comes with restrictions that preclude highly‐valued investments. I exploit policy discontinuities at the Pennsylvania‐Ohio border to understand how restrictions affect local investment. Ohio delivers unrestricted revenues to schools and municipalities with shale development. Pennsylvania leaves out schools, and requires that municipalities address the industry's impacts. Municipalities in both states save most of the revenues. Ohio schools leverage them to increase borrowing and finance capital investments. This suggests that affected residents have greater demand for school investments, and that broad use of compensation may benefit communities more than allocating it narrowly.
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