Working Paper

There is substantial heterogeneity in economic, educational, and health outcomes among American Indians, shaped by factors such as geographic location, resource endowments, and historical experiences with federal policies. There is clear evidence that...

Although scholarship on Native American and Alaska Native (NA/AN) political participation has expanded, most studies focus on voter turnout or a single election, leaving limited evidence on how Native citizens navigate the broader electoral process over...

Emergency systems do more than communicate risk. They determine whose governments are recognized as legitimate authorities, whose languages are operationally available, which relationships are treated as infrastructure, and who must absorb the work of...

Data centers, built rapidly to process artificial-intelligence workloads, impose local costs while their benefits accrue largely elsewhere: higher electricity prices, heavy water use for cooling, and, through fossil-fuel backup power and grid demand...

This paper examines Tamang self-determination in Nepal through the interconnected lenses of the politics of recognition, Indigenous resurgence, internal colonialism, decolonial thought, and epistemic justice. It argues that the Tamang struggle is not...

This chapter revisits Guillermo Bonfil Batalla's México Profundo (1987) through the lens of contemporary empirical historical economics. In that work, Bonfil Batalla argued that beneath a Westernized facade of modern Mexico lies a "Deep Mexico": a living...

We have built a comprehensive dataset of settler/Indigenous violent encounters covering more than 200 tribes in 21 western states over the nineteenth century. During this period, Native American and settler deaths were concentrated in the Southwest and...

This paper argues that communities should have a role not just in implementing development projects, but in deciding what counts as success in the first place. Today, that judgment is usually made elsewhere, by governments, donors, or researchers, using...

The Rohingya people of Myanmar represent the most extensively documented case of constructed statelessness in the contemporary world — the deliberate engineering of legal nonpersonhood as an instrument of ethnic persecution. Stripped of citizenship under...

Indigenous data sovereignty is often framed as ethical governance or system design. This article reframes it as a problem of public law: legal institutions recognize Indigenous sovereignty while allocating practical authority over data to agencies...