Visiting Fellows, 2011-2012

Each year the Lincoln Institute sponsors visiting fellows who have worked closely with the Institute in the past or have a special expertise in land and tax policy issues. These visiting fellows undertake research and are actively involved in the Institute's education programs.

  • John E. Anderson
  • Baird Family Professor of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • John Anderson is an academic economist and an advisor to public policy makers in the fields of public finance, fiscal reform, and tax policy. He served as a senior economist with the President's Council of Economic Advisers in Washington, DC, in 2005-2006. He has also advised state governors and legislatures, and numerous state agencies in the United States. In the international arena, Anderson has served as a technical advisor on fiscal reform projects and local government reform projects in Moldova, Montenegro, and Macedonia.
  • Shlomo Angel
  • Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning, Wagner School of Public Service, New York University
  • Shlomo Angel teaches the History and Theory of Planning at New York University and a similar course at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is carrying out a global study, titled The Dynamics of Global Urban Expansion, which focuses on a sample of 120 cities and develops a comparative set of metrics that characterize and explain the spatial structure of cities, as well as their patterns of growth and expansion. This research has been documented and distributed in three Lincoln Institute working papers, a policy focus report, and a database subcenter on the Institute Web site. He is also working on a book on this topic.
  • Richard F. Dye
  • Professor, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Professor of Economics Emeritus, Lake Forest College
  • Richard Dye's research focuses on state and local government finance as it relates to economic development. He is coeditor, with Richard England, of the Lincoln Institute book Land Value Taxation: Theory, Evidence, and Practice (2009), and the related policy focus report Assessing the Theory and Practice of Land Value Taxation (2010).
  • Richard W. England
  • Professor of Economics and Natural Resources, Whittemore School of Business and Economics, University of New Hampshire, Durham
  • Richard England is conducting an assessment of the U.S. experience with use-value assessment of rural lands under the property tax. This project includes a review of the theoretical, empirical, and policy literatures on use-value assessment as well as an empirical study of the impact of use-value assessment on the rate of land development in New Hampshire. England was a David C. Lincoln fellow at the Lincoln Institute in 2001-2003. He coauthored the book and policy focus report on land value taxation with Richard Dye.
  • Daphne A. Kenyon
  • Principal, D. A. Kenyon & Associates, Windham, New Hampshire
  • Daphne Kenyon has worked on a wide range of public finance issues as professor of economics at Dartmouth College and Simmons College, as a policy analyst for nonprofits and government, and as a consultant. She currently sits on the New Hampshire State Board of Education and the Education Commission of the States. As a visiting fellow, her focus is on residential property tax relief, the intersection of school finance and property tax issues, payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTS) by nonprofit property owners, and property taxes paid by businesses. She has authored and coauthored several policy focus reports for the Institute.
  • Gerald Korngold
  • Professor of Law, New York Law School, New York City
  • Gerald Korngold lectures, writes, and teaches in his legal field, and is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. His research and publications focus on privatization of public land use regulation, real estate transactions, comparative global property rights, as he explores issues of land ownership, regulation, and disposition. At the Lincoln Institute he analyzes property rights, conservation easements, property taxation, and global land issues.
  • Daniel P. McMillen
  • Professor, Department of Economics and Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Daniel McMillen focuses on spatial models of economic activity in urban areas, with an emphasis on zoning, land values, and house prices. He has been coeditor of Regional Science and Urban Economics since 2007, and he serves on the editorial boards of other leading journals in urban economics, real estate, and regional science, and as a consultant for the Federal Re serve Bank of Chicago. As a visiting fellow, his goal is to help develop new methods to assist in land valuation and in assessment ratio studies.
  • Sally Powers
  • Property Tax Consultant, Deloitte Consulting, LLP
  • In the course of her consulting career, Sally Powers has served as the resident manager for property tax projects in Kosovo, South Africa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. She has advised on property tax implementations in Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia, and the Kyrgyz Republic. In 2011 she went to Turkmenistan to assist in establishment of a valuation profession. Prior to this international work, she served as an assessor in Boston, Newton, and Brook line, and was director of assessment in Cambridge for 13 years. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Appraisal Foundation. At the Institute she manages the online database, Significant Features of the Property Tax; studies property tax systems in transitional economies; and serves as a liaison with the U.S. assessment community.
  • Andrew Reschovsky
  • Professor of Public Affairs and Applied Economics, Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Andrew Reschovsky researches a range of issues related to state and local public finance, federal tax policy, and intergovernmental fiscal relations in developing countries. As a visiting fellow, he is studying changing property tax levies and the fiscal condition of local governments in urban areas. His work is available in several recent Lincoln Institute working papers on the Web site.