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.
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 Parker
Economic Journal. 2021.
Secured Transactions Laws and Economic Development on American Indian Reservations.
with Donna Feir, Christian Dippel, and Marc Roark
AEA 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 Dippel
Journal 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 Kremen
Conservation Science & Practice. 2021.
Land Quality, Land Rights, and Indigenous Poverty.
with Dominic Parker and Terry Anderson
Journal of Development Economics. 2020.
The Economics of Indigenous Water Claim Settlements in the American West.
with Eric Edwards and Leslie Sanchez
Environmental Research Letters. 2020.
Rationing by Racing and the Oklahoma Land Rushes.
with Douglas W. Allen
Journal of Institutional Economics. 2020.
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.
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.
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. Allen
Cliometrica. 2019.
Legal and Institutional Barriers to Establishing Non-Use Rights to Natural Resources.
with Shawn Regan
Natural Resources Journal. 2019.
Endogenous First-Possession Property Rights in Open Access Resources.
with Gary D. Libecap
Iowa Law Review. 2015.
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SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |
SOS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SOS 493 | Honors Thesis |
SOS 592 | Research |
SOS 598 | Special Topics |
SOS 599 | Thesis |
SOS 790 | Reading and Conference |
SOS 792 | Research |
Fall 2021 | |
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SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |
SOS 792 | Research |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |
SOS 790 | Reading and Conference |
SOS 792 | Research |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |
SOS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SOS 493 | Honors Thesis |
SOS 529 | Sem in Environ and Sust Econ |
SOS 792 | Research |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |
SOS 493 | Honors Thesis |
SOS 790 | Reading and Conference |
SOS 792 | Research |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |
SOS 591 | Seminar |
SOS 792 | Research |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |
SOS 493 | Honors Thesis |
SOS 790 | Reading and Conference |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |
SOS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SOS 598 | Special Topics |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SOS 325 | Economics of Sustainability |
SOS 598 | Special Topics |
SOS 792 | Research |
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SOS 591 | Seminar |