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Urban Nature Centers and Housing Prices in Chicago
Daniel T. McGrath and Daniel P. McMillen
September 2007, English
Working Paper
September 2007, English
Working Paper
The Effects of Land Policy on Urban Land Prices in Bogotá
September 2007, English
Working Paper
September 2007, English
Working Paper
School Finance Over Time
How Changing Structures Affect Support for K-12 Education
Sheila E. Murray and Kim Rueben
August 2007, English
Working Paper
August 2007, English
Working Paper
Access to Land, Local Taxes and Financing of Urban Development
The Case of Santiago, Chile
Camilo Arriagada Luco and Daniela Simioni
August 2007, English
Working Paper
August 2007, English
Working Paper
Value Capture for Urban Development
An Inter-American Comparison
Martim O. Smolka and David Amborski
August 2007, English
Working Paper
August 2007, English
Working Paper
The Illinois Property Tax
History and Structure
Nathan B. Anderson and Therese J. McGuire
August 2007, English
Working Paper
August 2007, English
Working Paper
Surprise!
An Unintended Consequence of Assessment Limitations
Richard F. Dye and Daniel P. McMillen
July 2007, English
Public policy changes often have unintended consequences—side effects, feedback effects, benefits to individuals not in the target group, unexpected costs, perverse incentives, new opportunities to game the system, and the like. Early experiences with assessment limitation measures reveal an unanticipated result: some property owners seemingly targeted to benefit from lower assessments may be harmed instead.
Housing, Land and Property Rights, Local Government, Property Tax
July 2007, English
Public policy changes often have unintended consequences—side effects, feedback effects, benefits to individuals not in the target group, unexpected costs, perverse incentives, new opportunities to game the system, and the like. Early experiences with assessment limitation measures reveal an unanticipated result: some property owners seemingly targeted to benefit from lower assessments may be harmed instead.
Housing, Land and Property Rights, Local Government, Property Tax
Report From the President
Decentralization
Gregory K. Ingram
July 2007, English
The Institute’s June 2007 Land Policy Conference focused on decentralization—the degree to which local and provincial governments exercise power, make decisions about their revenues and expenditures, and are held accountable for outcomes. Because the services,regulatory constraints, and institutional environments provided by local governments are major factors in the location decisions of households and firms in […]
Economic Development, Local Government, Public Finance
July 2007, English
The Institute’s June 2007 Land Policy Conference focused on decentralization—the degree to which local and provincial governments exercise power, make decisions about their revenues and expenditures, and are held accountable for outcomes. Because the services,regulatory constraints, and institutional environments provided by local governments are major factors in the location decisions of households and firms in […]
Economic Development, Local Government, Public Finance
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