The Lincoln Institute’s C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship Program assists Ph.D. students, primarily at U.S. universities, whose research complements the Institute’s interests in land and tax policy. This program honors Professor Harriss (1912–2009) who taught economics at Columbia University and was a long-time member of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Board of Directors.
Administered through the departments of Valuation and Taxation and Planning and Urban Form, the program provides a link between the Institute’s educational mission and its research objectives by supporting scholars early in their careers. The Institute hosts a seminar for the fellowship recipients each year so they can present their research and share feedback with other fellows and Institute faculty members.
Valuation and Taxation
Francis Wong
University of California, Berkeley
Examining the Incidence of the Property Tax Using a Spatial Equilibrium Framework
Peter Jones
University of California, Berkeley
Loss Aversion and Property Tax Avoidance
Tina Beale
University of Reading
The Tax Collector-Taxpayer Relationship and the Compliance/Evasion Equilibrium(s) in Jamaica: A Case Study on the Behaviour of Property Taxpayers in Selected Parishes
Jingran Sun
University of North Texas
The Effects of Property Tax Exemptions on Municipal Budgets: An Assessment of the Impact on Revenue Volatility, Dependence on Property Taxes, and Expenditure Choices
Planning and Urban Form
Patrick Kilfoil
McGill University
Innovation districts: Often Imitated, Never Duplicated? Analyzing the Diffusion and Implementation of an Urban Policy Idea
Tianren Yang
University of Cambridge
A New Model for Land Value Capture in Planned New Urban Centers: Lessons from the Greater Shanghai Region