groundwater basins using a new dataset to identify factors that influence the adoption of extraction controls. In 309 basins … severely overdrafted. Meanwhile, users in 31 basins have defined groundwater property rights, the most complete solution. We …

, technological improvements made groundwater from the Ogallala aquifer available for irrigation. Comparing counties over the Ogallala … with nearby similar counties, groundwater access increased irrigation intensity and initially reduced the impact of …

agricultural gains when post-WWII technologies increased farmers' access to groundwater. Comparing counties over the Ogallala with …

a model of dynamic groundwater extraction to demonstrate how a spatial regression discontinuity design that exploits a … spatially-incomplete market for groundwater rights recovers a lower bound on the market's net benefit. We apply this estimator … to a major aquifer in water-scarce southern California and find that a groundwater market generated substantial net …