...Bryan Leonard; Steven M. Smith This paper provides new evidence on the relationship between property rights to water and the demand for land on the American Frontier. Using geo-located records of individual land patents from the General Land Office, we compare rates of settlement in counties across...

...Leticia Arroyo Abad; Noel Maurer The United States took control of the Philippine Islands in 1898. Four decades later, property rights in the Philippines had become unambiguously less secure: outright squatting jumped from 2.4% of farm area in 1903 to 6.4% by 1939. Most of the remaining landholders...

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