Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: The Price of Property: An Economic and Spatial Analysis of American Indian Land Loss on the Western Frontier, 1880-1915

经济学博士论文研究：财产价格：1880-1915 年西部边境美洲印第安人土地损失的经济和空间分析

基本信息

批准号：
2117274
负责人：
Price Fishback
金额：
$ 2.5万
依托单位：
University of Arizona
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-08-15 至 2024-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2117274&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Doctoral Dissertation Research Economics Price

项目摘要

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).This doctoral dissertation research in economics (DDRIE) project will study how the economic conditions, land rights, and water rights of American Indian tribes were influenced by western expansion. The evolution of American Indian development as a result of western expansion allows for the study of long-standing questions about institutional development in many ways---land and natural resource management during and since settlement, property rights enforcement, contract recognition, and corruption in public finance. This research is based on the construction of a new dataset based on highly disaggregated annual data that looks at individual land transfers over time and includes tribal characteristics, socio-economic data, land-use information, legal institutions, and details of financial arrangements between tribes and the U.S. government. This project will make available a new dataset of parcel-level data, collecting information held in the national archives and other sources that have been difficult to aggregate previously due to technological limitations. This project will broadly expand the accessibility of pivotal information regarding U.S. western settlements and the United States’ relationship with American Indian tribes.The first section focuses on how land characteristics, socio-economic conditions, and public finance influenced American Indian reservation boundaries. The research team has have geocoded the transfers of individual parcels of land from Bureau of Land Management records and matched to reservation boundaries, data on land-price information, to historic reports from the Office of Indian Affairs, and to digitized U.S. – American Indian treaties. The land parcel data allows the researchers to analyze the checkerboarding of reservations, changes in patterns as new rules are introduced, the heterogeneity of experiences across tribes and reservations, and the impact of treaty and financial arrangements between the tribes and federal government. The second section then focuses on the political economy and legislative changes associated with land transfers – to examine the mechanisms of expropriation. The third section examines the impact of changes in and the uncertainty surrounding tribal water rights on western water use and quality. I use millions of observations of water pollution measurements from 1960 to the present to examine how the timing of lawsuits and specific settlements and rulings in these cases influenced water pollution patterns on reservations and outside reservations for surrounding waterways. The proposed project will thus enhance the current literature by using connecting new and existing historic information in novel ways to better understand the precursors and impacts of legal and economic institutions surrounding U.S. western settlement.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项是根据2021年《美国救援计划法》的全部或部分资助的（公共法117-2）。本博士学位论文研究（DDRIE）项目将研究美洲印第安部落的经济状况，土地权和水权如何受西方扩张的影响。由于西方扩张而导致美洲印第安人发展的发展，可以在许多方面研究有关机构发展的长期问题 - 在和自设定期间，土地和自然资源管理，财产权执法，合同认可和公共财务上的纠正。这项研究基于基于高度分开的年度数据的新数据集的构建，该数据随着时间的流逝而着眼于各个土地转移，包括部落特征，社会经济数据，土地利用信息，法律机构以及部落与美国政府之间的财务安排的细节。项目将提供一个新的包裹级数据数据集，收集在国家档案馆中保存的信息和其他由于技术限制而难以汇总的来源。该项目将广泛扩大有关美国西部定居点以及美国与美洲印第安部落的关系的关键信息的可访问性。第一部分侧重于土地特征，社会经济状况和公共财政如何影响美洲印度保留边界。研究小组已将地理编码从土地管理记录局的各个土地包裹进行了地理编码，并与保留边界，土地价格信息的数据相匹配，并从印度事务办公室进行了历史性报告，并将其数字化美国印第安人治疗。土地包裹数据允许研究人员分析预订的棋盘，随着新规则引入模式的变化，跨部落和保留的经验的异质性以及部落和联邦政府之间的条约和财务安排的影响。然后，第二部分重点关注与土地转移相关的政治经济学和立法变化，以研究征收机制。第三部分研究了部落水权利对西方用水和质量的变化和不确定性的影响。从1960年到现在，我使用数百万的水污染测量值来研究这些情况下的诉讼，特定环境和规则的时间如何影响水污染模式，并在周围水道的外部保留下对水污染模式。因此，拟议的项目将通过使用新颖的方式连接新的和现有的历史信息来更好地了解美国西部定居点围绕的法律和经济机构的前辈和影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响审查标准来通过评估来提供支持。