Movement of labor from agriculture to nonagriculture and the associated increase in farm
size through structural transformation are at the core of economic development. We conduct …

Restoring natural resource access for Indigenous groups has become a recent policy focus.
We combine satellite data and robust difference-in-difference methods to estimate the …

Could renewable energy development on American Indian Reservations alleviate poverty?
This Article combines data on wind and solar endowments, reservation characteristics and …

From 1887 to 1934, the federal government broke up millions of acres of tribally owned
reservation lands and allotted them to individual Native American households. The Bureau …

The rule of law is a process whereby the citizens—society—are in a race with the state—
government—to thread the needle between anarchy and despotism, or to live in “the narrow …

Some governments distribute profits from state-owned enterprises to citizens on a per capita
basis while others do not. Does the use of per capita payments affect how governments …

Since the early 1900s, US national, tribal, and state institutions have been addressing
conflicts over water entitlements of Native American tribes. The resulting regional water …

Water rights were allocated in the western United States between 1850-1900 without regard
for pre-existing Indigenous claims. A 1908 US Supreme Court ruling (Winters vs. United …