Native American Property Rights & Governance
Published & Accepted Articles
Property Rights without Transfer Rights: A Study of Indian Land Allotment
Christian Dippel, Dustin Frye, Bryan Leonard
Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics, Forthcoming 2025 | NBER WP #27479
NBER
Media Coverage (3)
Late Homesteading: Indigenous Land Dispossession Through Strategic Occupation
Douglas W. Allen, Bryan Leonard
American Political Science Review, 2025
Economic Potential of Wind and Solar Resources in American Indian Communities
Dominic Parker, Sarah Johnston, Bryan Leonard, Daniel Stewart, Justin Winikoff
Nature Energy, 2024
Media Coverage (14)
- Nature Energy: “Refining Native American Clean-Energy Opportunities” (News & Views)
- Nature Energy: “Retrospective on Research in 2024” (highlighted)
- Wisconsin Public Radio: “Study Finds Streamlining Energy Regulations Could Ease Poverty on Tribal Lands”
- MinnPost: “Why Aren’t Tribal Nations Installing More Green Energy? Blame ‘White Tape’”
- Corporate Knights: “Bureaucratic ‘White Tape’ Is Hampering Green Energy Projects on Indigenous Reservations”
- Reason: “Many Native Americans Struggle with Poverty. Easing Energy Regulations Could Help.”
- Tribal Business News: “Q+A: Professor Dominic Parker on Why Tribal Lands’ Renewable Potential Remains Untapped”
- Phys.org: “Streamlining Energy Regulations on Native American Reservations Could Help Alleviate Poverty”
- UW-Madison News
- Eurasia Review
- The Daily Cardinal
- PERC
- UW-Madison AAE Department
- LandApp: “Renewable Energy Development on Tribal Lands”
Bureaucratic Discretion in Policy Implementation: Evidence from the Allotment Era
Christian Dippel, Dustin Frye, Bryan Leonard
Public Choice, 2022
Ownership Fragmentation and Natural Resource Use: Evidence from the Bakken
Bryan Leonard, Dominic Parker
Economic Journal, 2021
Media Coverage (1)
Secured Transactions Laws and Economic Development on American Indian Reservations
D. Feir, Christian Dippel, Bryan Leonard, Marc Roark
AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2021
Land Quality, Land Rights, and Indigenous Poverty
Bryan Leonard, Dominic Parker, Terry Anderson
Journal of Development Economics, 2020
Media Coverage (1)
Paper Water, Wet Water, and the Recognition of Indigenous Property Rights
Leslie Sanchez, Eric Edwards, Bryan Leonard
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2023
Media Coverage (8)
- Grist: “Tribes Could Lease Their Water to Dry States. Why Is It So Hard?”
- Hoover Institution: “Federal Barriers Limit Native American Benefits From Water Right Settlements”
- NC State News: “Study: Tribal Water Rights Underutilized in U.S. West”
- NC State Audio Abstract Podcast: “Water Rights”
- WaterWorld: “Tribal Water Rights Underutilized in U.S. West”
- PERC
- Mercatus Center
- NC State CALS Extension: “Tribal Water Rights Play an Important Role”
The Economics of Indigenous Water Claim Settlements in the American West
Leslie Sanchez, Eric Edwards, Bryan Leonard
Environmental Research Letters, 2020
Media Coverage (8)
- Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: “Beyond ‘Paper’ Water: Complexities of Leveraging Tribal Water Rights”
- Reason: “One Small Step for Native American Water Rights”
- PERC: “How Federal Laws Undermine Native American Water Rights”
- PERC: “Empowering Tribes Can Help Address the Drought Plaguing the West”
- PERC: “Addressing Institutional Barriers to Native American Water Marketing”
- The ALI Adviser: “One Small Step for Native American Water Rights”
- Native Waters on Arid Lands: “Researcher Develops Database of Tribal Water Settlements”
- NC State CENREP: “Challenges of Adjudicating Native American Water Rights”