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Social and Economic Change on American Indian Reservations
By 2010, the vast majority of American Indian tribes could be considered gaming tribes. We estimate that more than 92% of all American Indians on reservations lived on reservations with gaming operations. Gaming operations have an impact on almost every American Indian reservation given the…
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Constitutions and Economic Development: Evidence from the American Indian Nations
This paper presents an empirical examination of economic and institutional development. Utilizing a novel data set on American Indian tribal nations we investigate how constitutional design affects economic development, while holding the broader legal and political environment fixed. Instrumental…