Bryan Leonard
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Mail code: 7904Campus: Tempe
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Bryan Leonard's research focuses on the evolution and performance of different institutional responses to natural resource and environmental problems, with emphasis on how formal and informal property rights affect coordination and collective action for managing natural resources. He studies how the structure of property rights is shaped by the benefits and costs of defining and enforcing rights along various dimensions and assesses the long-term economic effects of institutional innovations in the definition of property rights. His research combines models of natural resource use and the institutional and legal settings in which property rights emerge with econometric analysis of historic and modern data sets created using GIS.
- PhD, Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara, 2016
- MS, Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara, 2013
- MS, Applied Economics, Montana State University, 2012
- BA, Economics, Hillsdale College, 2010
Who Gets What from Fisheries Reform? with Josh Abbott and Brian Garber-Yonts.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Forthcoming 2021.
Property Right Acquisition and Path Dependence: Nineteenth-Century Land Policy and Modern Economic Outcomes. 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.
Allow "Non-Use" Rights to Conserve Natural Resources. with Shawn Regan, Christopher Costello, Dominic Parker, Kerry Smith, Andrew Plantinga, Jim Salzman, and Temple Stoellinger. Science. 2021.
Individualistic Culture Increases Economic Mobility in the United States with Steven M. Smith. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2021.
Ownership Fragmentation and Natural Resource Use: Evidence from the Bakken. with Dominic ParkerEconomic Journal. 2021.
Secured Transactions Laws and Economic Development on American Indian Reservations. with Donna Feir, Christian Dippel, and Marc RoarkAEA Papers and Proceedings. 2021.
Stranded Land Constrains Public Land Management and Contributes to Larger Fires. with Andrew Plantinga and Matt Wibbenmeyer. Environmental Research Letters. 2021.
Not-So-Natural Experiments in History. with Christian DippelJournal of Historical Political Economy. 2021.
Harnessing Visitors’ Enthusiasm for National Parks to Fund Cooperative Large Landscape Conservation. with Arthur Middleton, Temple Stoellinger, Harshad Karandikar, Holly Doremus, and Claire KremenConservation Science & Practice. 2021.
Land Quality, Land Rights, and Indigenous Poverty. with Dominic Parker and Terry AndersonJournal of Development Economics. 2020.
The Economics of Indigenous Water Claim Settlements in the American West. with Eric Edwards and Leslie SanchezEnvironmental Research Letters. 2020.
Rationing by Racing and the Oklahoma Land Rushes. with Douglas W. AllenJournal of Institutional Economics. 2020.
Virtual Parceling. with Karen BradshawInternational 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 WrightWater Alternatives. 2020.
Collective Action by Contract: Prior Appropriation and the Development of Irrigation in the Western United States (NBER WP #22185). with Gary D. LibecapJournal of Law and Economics. 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.
How Many Rushed During the Oklahoma Land Openings? with Douglas W. AllenCliometrica. 2019.
Legal and Institutional Barriers to Establishing Non-Use Rights to Natural Resources. with Shawn ReganNatural Resources Journal. 2019.
Endogenous First-Possession Property Rights in Open Access Resources. with Gary D. LibecapIowa Law Review. 2015.
Courses
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SOS 592 | Research |
SOS 599 | Thesis |
SOS 790 | Reading and Conference |
SOS 792 | Research |
SOS 799 | Dissertation |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |
SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |
SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |
SOS 792 | Research |
SOS 790 | Reading and Conference |
SOS 799 | Dissertation |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SOS 592 | Research |
SOS 799 | Dissertation |
SOS 599 | Thesis |
SOS 790 | Reading and Conference |
SOS 792 | Research |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SOS 599 | Thesis |
SOS 792 | Research |
SOS 792 | Research |
SOS 790 | Reading and Conference |
SOS 799 | Dissertation |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SOS 592 | Research |
SOS 493 | Honors Thesis |
SOS 599 | Thesis |
SOS 790 | Reading and Conference |
SOS 792 | Research |
SOS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |
SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |
SOS 598 | Special Topics |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |
SOS 792 | Research |
SOS 792 | Research |
SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SOS 790 | Reading and Conference |
SOS 792 | Research |
SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |
SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |
SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |
SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |
SOS 529 | Sem in Environ and Sust Econ |
SOS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SOS 493 | Honors Thesis |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SOS 493 | Honors Thesis |
SOS 790 | Reading and Conference |
SOS 792 | Research |
SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |
SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |
SOS 591 | Seminar |
SOS 792 | Research |
2019 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SOS 493 | Honors Thesis |
SOS 790 | Reading and Conference |
SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |