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Published in final edited form as: J Environ Econ Manage. 2022 Jul 6;115:102696. doi: 10.1016/j.jeem.2022.102696

Table 4:

Heterogeneity in the effects of resource development on mortality by population subgroups

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

Race Aged: 18–39 Age: 40–65

White Non-White Male Female Male Female

Panel A: Non-Drug Mortality

# of operating coal mines (in 10s) −17.50*** (6.696) 17.04 (25.03) 9.646** (4.495) −1.125 (2.774) −29.66*** (9.880) −33.80*** (12.26)
# of horizontal oil and gas wells (in 100s) −14.68 (9.352) 10.40 (11.88) 1.083
−2.467
−0.424 (1.707) 4.886 (3.891) −3.668 (3.769)

# of observations 32,601 32,123 32,546 32,546 32,546 32,546
R-squared 0.849 0.481 0.326 0.255 0.627 0.502

Panel B: Opioid Overdose Mortality

# of operating coal mines (in 10s) −1.153 (0.831) 1.529 (2.404) 7.177*** (2.455) 2.129 (1.407) −5.018** (2.149) −3.117** (1.557)
# of horizontal oil and gas wells (in 100s) 0.176 (0.191) 0.452 (0.575) 0.462 (0.587) 0.479 (0.552) −0.101 (0.320) 0.123 (0.365)

# of observations 32,776 32,725 32,776 32,776 32,776 32,776
R-squared 0.493 0.095 0.284 0.187 0.363 0.271

All Region <= 100 miles from shale/coal basins X X X X X X

Notes: In this table, we highlight estimates of the effects of resource development on opioid overdose rates across different populations. In Panel A, the outcome variable is the non-drug mortality rate (per 100,000 people). In Panel B, the outcome variable is the opioid overdose rate (per 100,000 people) with corrections used based on models discussed in Boslett, Denham, and Hill (2019) for the given population sub-group of interest. All models include county fixed effects, state-by-year fixed effects, and interactions between a year vector and the initial mortality rate in 2000 to control for pre-coal bust and pre-shale boom differences in mortality rates. Statistical significance: 1% level, ***; 5% level, **; and 10% level, *.