Bryan Leonard

Property Right Acquisition and Path Dependence: Nineteenth-Century Land Policy and Modern Economic Outcomes (click here for June 2019 Slides).
with Douglas W. Allen.
Economic Journal. Forthcoming 2021.

Canals, Climate, and Corruption: The Provisioning of Public Infrastructure under Uncertainty.
with Sechindra Vallury.
Economics and Politics. Forthcoming 2021.

Secured Transactions Laws and Economic Development on American Indian Reservations.
with Donna Feir, Christian Dippel, and Marc Roark
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings. 2021.

Not-So-Natural Experiments in History.
with Christian Dippel
Journal of Historical Political Economy. 2021.

Ownership Fragmentation and Natural Resource Use: Evidence from the Bakken.
with Dominic Parker
Economic Journal. 2021.

Harnessing Visitors’ Enthusiasm for National Parks to Fund Cooperative Large Landscape Conservation.
with Arthur Middleton, Temple Stoellinger, Harshad Karandikar, Holly Doremus, and Claire Kremen
Conservation Science & Practice. 2021.

Virtual Parceling.
with Karen Bradshaw
International Journal of the Commons. 2020

Agricultural Water Governance in the Desert: Shifting Risks in Central Arizona.
with Abigail York, Hallie Eakin, Julia Bausch, Skaidra Smith-Heisters, Marty Anderies, Rimjhim Aggarwal, and Katherine Wright
Water Alternatives. 2020.

The Economics of Indigenous Water Claim Settlements in the American West.
with Eric Edwards and Leslie Sanchez
Environmental Research Letters. 2020.

Land Quality, Land Rights, and Indigenous Poverty.
with Dominic Parker and Terry Anderson
Journal of Development Economics. 2020.

Rationing by Racing and the Oklahoma Land Rushes.
with Douglas W. Allen
Journal of Institutional Economics. 2020.

How Many Rushed During the Oklahoma Land Openings?
with Douglas W. Allen
Cliometrica. 2019.

Collective Action by Contract: Prior Appropriation and the Development of Irrigation in the Western United States (NBER WP #22185).
with Gary D. Libecap
Journal of Law and Economics. 2019.

Legal and Institutional Barriers to Establishing Non-Use Rights to Natural Resources.
with Shawn Regan
Natural Resources Journal. 2019.

Expanding Water Markets in the Western United States: Barriers and Lessons from Other Natural Resource Markets.
with Christopher Costello and Gary D. Libecap.
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. 2019.

Endogenous First-Possession Property Rights in Open Access Resources.
with Gary D. Libecap
Iowa Law Review. 2015.