Courting Economic Development

Courting Economic Development

The authors show that court enforcement uncertainty hinders economic development using sharp variation in judiciaries across Native American reservations in the United States. Congressional legislation passed in 1953 assigned state courts the autho...

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Main Authors: Brown, James R., Cookson, J. Anthony, Heimer, Rawley Z.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2019
Subjects:
TRIBAL COURT
STATE COURT
LAW ENFORCEMENT
CIVIL DISPUTE
LEGAL UNCERTAINTY
LEGAL AMBIGUITY
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
NATIVE AMERICAN RESERVATIONS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/668331565590622119/Courting-Economic-Development
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32243
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spelling okr-10986-322432021-05-25T10:54:42Z Courting Economic Development Brown, James R. Cookson, J. Anthony Heimer, Rawley Z. TRIBAL COURT STATE COURT LAW ENFORCEMENT CIVIL DISPUTE LEGAL UNCERTAINTY LEGAL AMBIGUITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NATIVE AMERICAN RESERVATIONS The authors show that court enforcement uncertainty hinders economic development using sharp variation in judiciaries across Native American reservations in the United States. Congressional legislation passed in 1953 assigned state courts the authority to resolve civil disputes on a subset of reservations, while tribal courts retained authority on unaffected reservations. Although affected and unaffected reservations had similar economic conditions when the law passed, reservations under state courts experienced significantly greater long-run growth. When the authors examine the distribution of incomes across reservations, the average difference in development is due to the lower incomes of the most impoverished reservations with tribal courts. The authors show that the relative underdevelopment of reservations with tribal courts is driven by reservations with the most uncertainty in court enforcement. 2019-08-13T19:38:10Z 2019-08-13T19:38:10Z 2016-05-10 Journal Article http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/668331565590622119/Courting-Economic-Development World Bank Economic Review http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32243 English CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research United States
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topic TRIBAL COURT
STATE COURT
LAW ENFORCEMENT
CIVIL DISPUTE
LEGAL UNCERTAINTY
LEGAL AMBIGUITY
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
NATIVE AMERICAN RESERVATIONS
spellingShingle TRIBAL COURT
STATE COURT
LAW ENFORCEMENT
CIVIL DISPUTE
LEGAL UNCERTAINTY
LEGAL AMBIGUITY
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
NATIVE AMERICAN RESERVATIONS
Brown, James R.
Cookson, J. Anthony
Heimer, Rawley Z.
Courting Economic Development
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description The authors show that court enforcement uncertainty hinders economic development using sharp variation in judiciaries across Native American reservations in the United States. Congressional legislation passed in 1953 assigned state courts the authority to resolve civil disputes on a subset of reservations, while tribal courts retained authority on unaffected reservations. Although affected and unaffected reservations had similar economic conditions when the law passed, reservations under state courts experienced significantly greater long-run growth. When the authors examine the distribution of incomes across reservations, the average difference in development is due to the lower incomes of the most impoverished reservations with tribal courts. The authors show that the relative underdevelopment of reservations with tribal courts is driven by reservations with the most uncertainty in court enforcement.
format Journal Article
author Brown, James R.
Cookson, J. Anthony
Heimer, Rawley Z.
author_facet Brown, James R.
Cookson, J. Anthony
Heimer, Rawley Z.
author_sort Brown, James R.
title Courting Economic Development
title_short Courting Economic Development
title_full Courting Economic Development
title_fullStr Courting Economic Development
title_full_unstemmed Courting Economic Development
title_sort courting economic development
publisher Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate 2019
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/668331565590622119/Courting-Economic-Development
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32243
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