Several disciplines in social sciences have shown that institutions that promote cooperation facilitate mutually beneficial exchanges and generate prosperity. Drawing on these insights, this paper develops a Reservation Economic Freedom Index that classifies institutions on a sample of Indian reservations concerning whether these intuitions will enhance the prosperity of Indians residing on these reservations. The development of this index is guided by the research of political scientists, economists, other social science disciplines, and research in law. When correlating this index with Indian incomes, the evidence shows a statistically significant positive correlation between reservations with prosperity-enhancing institutions and their economic prosperity.

社会科学的多个学科已经表明，促进合作的机构可以促进互利交流并创造繁荣。基于这些见解，本文制定了保留地经济自由指数，该指数对印度保留地样本上的机构进行分类，以确定这些直觉是否会促进居住在这些保留地的印第安人的繁荣。该指数的制定以政治学家、经济学家、其他社会科学学科以及法学研究为指导。当将该指数与印度收入联系起来时，有证据表明，对促进繁荣的机构的保留与其经济繁荣之间存在统计上显着的正相关关系。