Land Titling & the American West
Working Papers
Establishing the Land of Opportunity: Land Rights and Economic Mobility in American History
Steven Smith, Bryan Leonard, Eric Alston, Joseph Price
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Published & Accepted Articles
Late Homesteading: Indigenous Land Dispossession Through Strategic Occupation
Douglas W. Allen, Bryan Leonard
American Political Science Review, 2025
Property Right Acquisition and Path Dependence: Nineteenth-Century Land Policy and Modern Economic Outcomes
Douglas W. Allen, Bryan Leonard
Economic Journal, 131(640), 2021
Individualistic Culture Increases Economic Mobility in the United States
Bryan Leonard, Steven M. Smith
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(37), 2021
Does Equality Persist? Evidence from The Homestead Act
Brian Kogelmann, Bryan Leonard
Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, 2022
Not-So-Natural Experiments in History
Christian Dippel, Bryan Leonard
Journal of Historical Political Economy, 2021
Rationing by Racing and the Oklahoma Land Rushes
Douglas W. Allen, Bryan Leonard
Journal of Institutional Economics, 2020
How Many Rushed During the Oklahoma Land Openings?
Douglas W. Allen, Bryan Leonard
Cliometrica, 2019
Endogenous First-Possession Property Rights in Open Access Resources
Bryan Leonard, Gary D. Libecap
Iowa Law Review, 100(6), 2015