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Creeping normalcy : fractionation of Indian land ownership
Russ, Jake; Stratmann, Thomas - 2014
In 1992 the General Accounting Office (GAO) published a quantitative survey of Indian land ownership of twelve reservations, which was the first and still is the only survey of Indian land ownership. In our study we use 2010 data to show how ownership fractionation for these reservations has...
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Institutions and economic growth in historical perspective : part 2
Ogilvie, Sheilagh C.; Carus, A. W. - 2014
This is Part 2 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth … that private-order institutions have not historically substituted for public-order ones in enabling markets to function …, clarify the growth effects of other institutions, including contract-enforcement mechanisms, guilds, communities, serfdom, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371915
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Institutions and economic growth in historical perspective : part 1
Ogilvie, Sheilagh C.; Carus, A. W. - 2014
This is Part 1 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth … that private-order institutions have not historically substituted for public-order ones in enabling markets to function …, clarify the growth effects of other institutions, including contract-enforcement mechanisms, guilds, communities, serfdom, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371916
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Pampered bureaucracy, political stability, and trade integration
Stroup, Caleb; Zissimos, Benjamin - 2017
This paper examines the effect of trade integration and comparative advantage on one of a country's institutions, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615513
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The effects of land redistribution : evidence from the French Revolution
Finley, Theresa; Franck, Raphaël; Johnson, Noel D. - 2020
This study exploits the confiscation and auctioning off of Church property that occurred during the French Revolution to assess the role played by transaction costs in delaying the reallocation of property rights in the aftermath of fundamental institutional reform. French districts with a...
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The anthropometric history of Native Americans, c. 1820 - 1890
Komlos, John; Carlson, Leonard - 2012
The trend of the height of Indian scouts in the U.S. Army born between ca. 1825 and 1875 is analyzed. Their average height of ca. 170 cm (67 in.) confirms that natives were tall compared to Europeans but were nearly the shortest among the rural populations in the New World. The trend in their...
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Neighborhood racial characteristics, credit history, and bankcard credit in Indian country
Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina; Grajzl, Peter; Guse, A. Joseph - 2015
We examine whether concerns about lenders' discrimination based on community racial characteristics can be empirically substantiated in the context of neighborhoods on and near American Indian reservations. Drawing on a large-scale dataset consisting of individual-level credit bureau records, we...
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Mine, Ours or Yours? Unintended Framing Effects in Dictator Games
Bergh, Andreas; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2018 - This Version: April 16, 2018
This paper reports results from a classroom dictator game comparing the effects of three different sets of standard instructions. The results show that seemingly small differences in instructions induce fundamentally different perceptions regarding entitlement. Behavior is affected accordingly,...
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Insecure property rights and the missing middle
Grigoryan, Aram; Polborn, Mattias - 2018
We analyze a theoretical model in which entrepreneurs' property rights are threatened by "raiders" who can challenge them to a contest for control of their firms. Entrepreneurs have heterogeneous productivity, and decide how much capital to invest before raiders decide whom to attack. In...
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Oil wealth and property rights
De Soysa, Indra; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2020
different instrumental-variable approaches and operationalizations of oil wealth and economic institutions. We argue that oil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219700