Does Agriculture Generate Local Economic Spillovers? Short-Run and Long-Run Evidence from the Ogallala Aquifer

Richard Hornbeck; Pinar Keskin (2015) · American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Published

October 10, 2026

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Richard Hornbeck; Pinar Keskin (2015). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Table 2.

Template assessment

The source event study interacts the continuous Ogallala aquifer share with calendar years, using county weights and extensive geographic controls. It does not identify a binary aquifer-adoption ATT.

No comparison point or homogeneity-test decision is assigned to this paper.