My dissertation studies three important questions in international political economy: The long-run consequences of social divisions, the endogenous evolution of institutions, and how coercive labor market institutions determine the distribution of thegains from trade.I study these three questions in two very distinct populations: Native American reservations and the British Caribbean.The first paper asks whether the large differences in economic development across Native American reservations today can be explained by social divisions that were created more than 150 years ago when the U.S. government forcibly integrated distinct Native American bands into shared reservations, condemning them to a system of shared governance that was not consistent with their political traditions and tribal identities.
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