European Recessions and Native American Conflict / Marco Del Angel, Gregory D. Hess, Marc D. Weidenmier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Del Angel, Marco.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Hess, Gregory D.

Weidenmier, Marc D.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w29812.

NBER working paper series no. w29812

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2022.

Summary:

We investigate the extent to which conflicts between Native American tribes and U.S. Army troops were caused by poor economic conditions in Europe from 1869 to 1890. We hypothesize that contractions in economic activity pushed many Europeans to move to the western United States in search of better economic opportunity. The empirical analysis demonstrates that immigration, interacted with US railroad access, caused the probability of a Native American conflict to increase by approximately 46 percent.

Notes:

Print version record

March 2022.