Graduate Student Fellows (Land Lines Article)

Publication Date: October 2004

Inventory ID LLA041008; English

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The Lincoln Institute offers several types of fellowship programs to demonstrate its commitment to provide financial support to graduate students and practitioners at different stages of their academic and professional careers. These individuals will contribute to the land and tax policy knowledge base and will develop ideas to guide policy makers throughout the world. During the 2004–2005 academic year, 29 students are receiving fellowships to pursue their research.

Dissertation Fellows

The Lincoln Institute’s Dissertation Fellowship Program assists Ph.D. students, primarily at U.S. universities, whose research complements the Institute’s interests in land and tax policy. The program provides an important link between the Institute’s educational mission and its research objectives by supporting scholars early in their careers. Dissertation fellowship awards are $10,000 each. Every year the Institute hosts a special seminar for these fellowship recipients so they can present their research and share feedback with other fellows and Institute faculty members. Dissertation fellowship applications are due March 1, 2005, and the awards will be announced by July 15, 2005.

Gregory S. Burge
Department of Economics
Florida State University, Tallahassee
A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of the Effects of Impact Fees on the Affordability of Starter Homes

Choi Ki-Whan
Department of Economics
Georgia State University, Atlanta
The Economic Effects of Land Value Taxation in an Urban Area under Large Lot Zoning

Esteban G. Dalehite
School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Indiana University, Bloomington
School Finance and Local Incentives: The Effects of Property Tax Abatements on School Tax Burden and Effort

Michael Donovan
Department of City and Regional Planning
University of California at Berkeley
Toward a Political Economy of Land Titling: A Longitudinal Study of Recife, Brazil

Shihe Fu
Department of Economics
Boston College, Massachusetts
Essays on Urban Agglomeration and the Dynamic Henry George Theorem

Bill B. Golden
Department of Agricultural Economics
Kansas State University, Manhattan
Spatial Equity of Use Value Assessment

Levent Kaya
Department of Economics
State University of New York at Buffalo
Analyzing “Smart Taxes” as Growth Management Tools: Effects of Taxation on Urban Development

Raven E. Saks
Department of Economics
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Housing Supply Regulations across the United States

Makiko Tanaka
Department of City and Regional Planning
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Public Participation Emphasizing Consensus Building in the United States: Exploring a Japanese Framework for Comprehensive Land Use Plans

Tian Li
Department of Land Economy
University of Cambridge, England
Betterment and Compensation under the Land Use Rights System of China

Abigail York
Department of Political Science and School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Indiana University, Bloomington
The Impact of Zoning: A Multilevel Analysis

P. Christopher Zegras
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Sustainable Urban Mobility: What Role Does the Neighborhood Play?

International Fellows

The Institute’s Program on Latin America and the Caribbean offers its own fellowships to doctoral and masters students, for $5,000 and $3,000, respectively. Fellows attend an evaluation meeting for a critique of their projects at a Latin American locale. The LAC Program also cosponsors with the City Studies Program at the National Autonomous University of Mexico the FEXSU (Formación de expertos en suelo urbano) fellowship, available to graduate students writing theses on subjects directly related to urban land policy. Applications for fellowships in the LAC Program are due April 30, 2005, and the awards will be announced by July 1, 2005.

The Institute’s Program on the People’s Republic of China also awards dissertation and thesis fellowships of $5,000 and $3,000, respectively. Fellows participate in a workshop in China to present their proposals and receive critiques from an international expert panel. Fellows are required to make presentations based on their research findings prior to the final submission of their projects.

Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Nelson Baltrusis, Ph.D. student
School of Architecture and Urbanism
University of São Paulo, Brazil
The Informal Real Estate Market in Favelas in the São Paulo Metropolitan Region

Rosario Casanova, Master’s student
School of Engineering
University of the Republic
Montevideo, Uruguay
Multitemporal Analysis of Land Market Values in Montevideo to Identify Urban Interventions

María Cristina Cravino, Ph.D. student
Conurbano Institute
General Sarmiento National University
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tenure Regularization and Informal Land Market in Buenos Aires

Marcelo Fernando Delgado, Master’s student
School of Economic Sciences (CEPLAG)
Greater University of San Simón
Cochabamba, Bolivia
The Problem of Human Settlements: Land Use on the Campus of the Greater University of San Simón “La Tamborada” Farm

Daniel Galizzi, Master’s student
Department of Economics
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Institutional Capacity and Administration of Land and Housing Policies in Three Municipalities of Greater Buenos Aires

Nestor Garza, Master’s student
Department of Economics
National University of Colombia, Bogotá
New Housing Submarkets Produced by the Formal Sector in Bogotá

Nadia Hilgert, Master’s student
Institute of Urban and Regional Research and Planning (IPPUR)
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Urban Land, Poverty and Democracy: Access to Land by the Urban Poor in the Participatory Budget of Porto Alegre

Vilma Josefina Rondón, Master’s student
School of Architecture and Urbanism
Central University of Venezuela, Caracas
Improving Urban Operations Programs Proposed in Urban Master Plans

Camilo Silberkasten, Master’s student
Department of Economics
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Economic Analysis and Proposal for Reform of the Property Tax in Buenos Aires

Daniela Sepúlveda Swatson, Master’s student
School of Architecture and Urbanism
University of Chile, Santiago
Residential Segregation in Metropolitan Areas: Access to Land by Urban Poor in the Santiago Metropolitan Area

Rodrigo Tapia, Master’s student
Institute of Urban and Territorial Studies
Catholic University of Chile, Santiago
Spatial Aspects to Residential Segregation in Santiago, Chile

Alessandra Vieira, Master’s student
Institute for Technological Research
for the State of São Paulo, Brazil
Real Estate Appreciation Due to Public Intervention in São Paulo in the 1990s

Program on the People’s Republic of China

De Tong, Master’s student
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Shenzhen Graduate School, Beijing University
Guangdong
A Comparative Study of Shenzhen and Guangzhou in Land Use and Alteration Model of Villages Within Cities

Liu Xuan, Ph.D. student
Department of Real Estate
National University of Singapore
Construction of Land Markets: A Comparative Study of Chinatown (Singapore) and Jinhuajie, Guangzhou (China)

Wenli Feng, Ph.D. student
College of Resources Science and Technology
Beijing Normal University
The Methodology of Land Use Planning at the County Level Under Ecological Security in Haidian District, Beijing

Wu Yuzhe, Ph.D. student
Department of Land Management
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
GIS-based Urban Housing Price Data Mining and Its Application: Spatial Distribution of Urban Housing Price and Its Evolvement in Hangzhou

Yu Kun, Ph.D. student
Aetna School of Management
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Land Banking Modes for China

For application forms or information about any of these programs, contact fellowships@lincolninst.edu or visit the Lincoln Institute Web site (click here).