CURRENT
RESEARCH EFFORTS
Cabazon
, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, and the Socioeconomic
Consequences of American Indian Governmental Gaming
Funded by the member governments of the National
Indian Gaming Association and the Harvard Project
on American Indian Economic Development, the Cabazon…
research investigates the social and economic impacts
of Indian governmental gaming across the United
States. The research includes American
Indians on Reservations: A Databook of Socioeconomic
Change Between the 1990 and 2000 Censuses ,
which examines fifteen measures of socioeconomic
status including employment, income, housing, and
education, and compares levels of these indicators
for gaming and non-gaming Indian areas against the
US average over the 1990s. An Annotated
Bibliography: The Social and Economic Impacts of
Indian and Other Gaming summarizes more than
130 studies of the impacts of Indian and other gaming.
Case studies of the social and economic impacts
of Indian gaming on specific tribal communities
are forthcoming.
The Databook's data
files are available in Microsoft Excel and
may be downloaded free of charge. Hard copies of
the Databook and the Annotated Bibliography are
available on request for $7.00 each plus shipping.
Submit requests to hpaied@harvard.edu.
