The Spanish Mission Legacy on Native American Reservations

For comments, we thank Eric Alston, Jeremy Atack, Hoyt Bleakly, Ann Carlos, Richard Carrico, Christian Dippel, David Farris, Dustin Frye, John L. Kessell, Bryan Leonard, Gary Libecap, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Smith, and participants at the Spring Meeting of the DAE Program of the NBER. We thank Douglass Allen, Dustin Frye and Bryan Leonard with help accessing the data for our analyses. We thank Eli Goldstein for research assistance. Lee J. Alston is Professor of Economics and Affiliate Professor of Law at Indiana University, and Research Associate at the National Bureau for Economic Research; Marie Duggan is Professor of Management at Keene State College; and Julio A. Ramos is Assistant Research Professor of Public Policy at Penn State University. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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