When the Levee Breaks: Black Migration and Economic Development in the American South

Richard Hornbeck; Suresh Naidu (2014) · American Economic Review

Published

October 10, 2026

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from pathlib import Path

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    p for p in [Path.cwd(), *Path.cwd().parents]
    if (p / "scripts/tranche50_report.py").exists()
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Richard Hornbeck; Suresh Naidu (2014). American Economic Review. Table 2.

Template assessment

The source Table 2 event terms interact county flood intensity with post-1927 decades, retaining state-year effects and geographic controls. The target is a continuous flood-dose response, not a binary flood indicator.

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