Property institutions should ideally provide economic actors with certainty that their local
choices about investment will not be unsettled by shifting political economic equilibria. We …

In this paper we compare lands settled between 1862–1940 under the Homestead Act to
lands that sold for cash during the same time. We combine recently digitised individual land …

Abstract Development of the abundant wind energy across the Great Plains of the United
States has been relatively slow. We present a novel factor for the lag: the Ogallala Aquifer …

In the face of global warming, the rapid development of carbon-neutral energy resources is
utterly imperative. However, even environmentally friendly energy production like wind …

How natural resources are measured and bounded within a property right system can
influence their development and productivity. This is especially true for surface water given …

Under nineteenth-century US land policy, newly acceded Western states received large land
grants to fund the development of local schools and other public purposes. To identify the …

This paper quantifies the economic benefits of joining the USA. Adapting extant static
synthetic control models into a dynamic model similar to Arellano and Bond (Rev Econ Stud …

Abstract The New Institutional Economics (NIE) has its early roots in cliometrics. Cliometrics
began with a focus on using neo-classical theory to develop and test hypotheses in …

Understanding how institutions, technology and social welfare coevolve is essential to
understanding economic and social development, and the evolution of privacy alongside …

In many contexts, elections only partially determine political authority. I examine the impacts
of increasing electoral representation in Pakistan's 1960s local councils known as the “Basic …