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1. Tax Flights

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Dezembro 2012
   Koleman Strumpf

   Tax evasion is difficult to measure, since evaders try to avoid detection and counter-factual behavior is hard to establish. This paper considers evasion in an environment where these two issues can...

2. Coastal States’ Climate Adaptation Initiatives

   Sea Level Rise and Municipal Engagement
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Dezembro 2012
   Todd Schenk and Ona Ferguson

   Sea level rise is expected to become an increasingly prominent challenge for all levels of government as the climate changes. Complicating matters is the multi-jurisdictional nature of coastal zone...

3. Fostering Public Engagement in Water Choices

   Lessons from a Sun Corridor Workshop
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Outubro 2012
   Jim Holway and Alexandra Arboleda

   Water is an essential component of growth, sustainability and land policy throughout the Colorado River Basin. As Mark Twain famously said of the American west; “whiskey is for drinking and water is...

4. Housing Market Spillovers

   Evidence from the End of Rent Control in Cambridge, Massachusetts
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Outubro 2012
   David H. Autor, Christopher J. Palmer, and Parag A. Pathak

   Understanding potential spillovers from the attributes and actions of neighborhood residents onto the value of surrounding properties and neighborhoods is central to both the theory of urban...

5. Effective Practices in Funding Land Conservation for Impact

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Outubro 2012
   Gina Schrader and Jay Espy

   The goal of this project is to help foundations more effectively support land conservation and assist the efforts of conservation practitioners working on the ground. In an effort to document proven...

6. The University of Montana-Missoula

   A Campus with an Ecosystem
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Outubro 2012
   Gary M. Tabor, Matthew McKinney, and Perry Brown

   In the span of a century since its founding, the University of Montana in Missoula has extended its educational, research and community footprint from its campus door step at the base of Sentinel...

7. Large Landscape Conservation

   Recommendations for Online Data and Tools
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Outubro 2012
   Brenda Faber, Breece Robertson, and Ellie Knecht

   The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy initiated the Large Landscape GIS Project to provide design recommendations for an online platform of spatial datasets and planning tools that uniquely support...

8. A Search for the Underlying Structure Driving House Prices in a Distressed Environment

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Setembro 2012
   James R. Follain

   This is the third of three papers prepared for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy about the housing price bubbles and busts in the US. The first two by Follain and Giertz (2011, 2012) use lengthy...

9. Payments in Lieu of Taxes by Nonprofits

   Which Nonprofits Make PILOTs and Which Localities Receive Them?
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Setembro 2012
   Adam H. Langley, Daphne A. Kenyon, and Patricia C. Bailin

   This report provides more information than was previously available in any single source on the individual nonprofits that make payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTs) and the localities which receive...

10. Predicting House Price Bubbles and Busts with Econometric Models

    What We’ve Learned, What We Still Don’t Know
    Documentos de Trabalho
    Setembro 2012
    James R. Follain and Seth H. Giertz

    This paper builds upon our previous study (Follain and Giertz, 2011b) of the house price bubble and bust that has affected many US metropolitan housing markets in the last several years. Here, data...