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Geospatial Forum with Dr. Eric Edwards (NC State)

Jordan Hall Addition 1216 2720 Faucette Drive, Raleigh, NC, United States

Long-Term Outcomes of Recognizing Indigenous Property Rights to Water Summary: Restoring natural resource access for Indigenous groups has become a recent policy focus. We combine satellite data and robust difference-in-difference methods to estimate the causal effect of water right settlements on Native American reservations in the western United States over 1974-2012. Settlements increase agricultural land…