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Article: Do Reservation Native Americans Vote with Their Feet? A Re-examination of Native American Migration, 1985-1990. (Focus on Economic Sociology).
- Article from:
- The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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ELIZABETH ZAHRT GEIB (*)
ABSTRACT. Native Americans suffer some of the highest rates of poverty and unemployment and the lowest rates of human capital attainment among racial minority groups in the United States, but economists understand very little about the impact these conditions have on the migration patterns of Native Americans. In 1994, a seminal article on this topic appeared in this journal (Cebula and Belton 1994). In their article, the authors suggest that the low levels of human capital and poor conditions in Native American reservations should make Native American migration sensitive to interstate differences in AFDC spending levels. Their hypothesis ...