Land Tenure and Mining: Property Rights in Indigenous Territories in Brazil
Property Rights, Mining, Indigenous Territories, Political Economy
Mining activities have been present in Brazil since the colonization period. It has influenced social and economic transformations. Indigenous people have inhabited the Amazon and other regions since before Brazil's discovery. Their territories are known to be mineral sources and have inevitably attracted miners. Does indigenous land tenure impact mining? In this paper, we follow the Institutional and Organizational Analysis framework to build our hypothesis, and use the PPTAL program to run a propensity score matching and estimate the impact of homologation on mining. We find that the indigenous territories that were treated (homologated) have fewer mining requests compared to the control (not-homologated) group after the program ended