Work in Progress

• Hornbeck, Richard, and Martin Rotemberg. "Engines of Productivity Growth: Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing".
• Hornbeck, Richard. "Dust Bowl Migrants: Selection and Migration Patterns of Environmental Refugees".
• Banerjee, Abhijit, Esther Duflo, and Richard Hornbeck. 2017. "How Much do Existing Borrowers Value Microfinance? Evidence from an Experiment on Bundling Microcredit and Insurance", September 2017.
• Hornbeck, Richard, and Moretti, Enrico. 2015. "Who Benefits From Productivity Growth? The Local and Aggregate Impacts of Local TFP Shocks on Wages, Rents, and Inequality", May 2015.

Published and Forthcoming Papers

• Hornbeck, Richard, and Daniel Keniston. 2017. "Creative Destruction: Barriers to Urban Growth and the Great Boston Fire of 1872". American Economic Review 107(6): 1365-1398.
• Chaney, Eric, and Richard Hornbeck. 2016. "Economic Dynamics in the Malthusian Era: Evidence from the 1609 Spanish Expulsion of the Moriscos". Economic Journal 126(594): 1404-1440. Replication Files.
• Donaldson, Dave, and Richard Hornbeck. 2016. "Railroads and American Economic Growth: A "Market Access" Approach". Quarterly Journal of Economics 131(2): 799-858. Railroad Network Data, 1830-1920. Replication Files. Appendix.
• Hornbeck, Richard, and Pinar Keskin. 2015. "Does Agriculture Generate Local Economic Spillovers? Short-run and Long-run Evidence from the Ogallala Aquifer". American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 7(2) 192-213. Replication Files.
• Banerjee, Abhijit, Esther Duflo, and Richard Hornbeck. 2014. "Bundling Health Insurance and Microfinance in India: There Cannot be Adverse Selection if There is No Demand". American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 104(5): 291-297. Replication Files.
• Hornbeck, Richard, and Suresh Naidu. 2014. "When the Levee Breaks: Black Migration and Economic Development in the American South". American Economic Review 104(3): 963-990. Replication Files.
• Hornbeck, Richard, and Pinar Keskin. 2014. "The Historically Evolving Impact of the Ogallala Aquifer: Agricultural Adaptation to Groundwater and Drought". American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 6(1): 190-219. Replication Files.
• Hornbeck, Richard. 2012. "The Enduring Impact of the American Dust Bowl: Short- and Long-run Adjustments to Environmental Catastrophe". American Economic Review 102(4): 1477-1507. Replication Files.
• Hornbeck, Richard. 2012. "Nature versus Nurture: The Environment's Persistent Influence through the Modernization of American Agriculture". American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings 102(3): 245-249. Replication Files.
• Zwane, Alix, et al. 2011. "Being surveyed can change later behavior and related parameter estimates". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108(5): 1821-1826.
• Greenstone, Michael, Richard Hornbeck, and Moretti, Enrico. 2010. "Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from Winners and Losers of Large Plant Openings". Journal of Political Economy 118(3): 536-598. Non-Confidential Files.
• Hornbeck, Richard. 2010. "Barbed Wire: Property Rights and Agricultural Development". Quarterly Journal of Economics 125(2): 767-810. Replication Files and Border Fixes.