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1. Taxing and Untaxing Land

   Current Use Assessment of Farmland
   Otro
   Septiembre 2005
   Joan M. Youngman

   This article was originally published in State Tax Notes, a journal by Tax Analysts, on September 5, 2005. The debate over appropriate property tax treatment of farmland touches on many complex...

2. Property Tax and Urban Sprawl

   Theory and Implications for U.S. Cities
   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2005
   Yan Song and Yves Zenou

   This article attempts a formal analysis of the connection between property tax and urban sprawl in U.S. cities. We develop a theoretical model that includes households (who are also landlords)and...

3. Reinventing Conservation Easements

   A Critical Examination and Ideas for Reform
   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2005
   Jeff Pidot

   This working paper has been published as a Lincoln Institute Policy Focus Report. No recent happening in land conservation rivals the deployment from coast-to-coast of conservation easements. Beyond...

4. The Value of Open Space

   Evidence from Studies of Nonmarket Benefits
   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2005
   Virginia McConnell and Margaret Walls

   Open space provides a range of benefits to citizens of a community, beyond the benefits that accrue to private landowners. Parks and natural areas can be used for recreation; wetlands and forests...

5. Land Lines, October 2005

   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2005
   Edited by Ann LeRoyer

   This issue explores the relationships between economic development, infrastructure, and land taxation in the U.S.; informal settlements, and overall land and housing challenges, in Brazil’s Rio...

6. Land Lines, January 2005

   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 2005
   Edited by Ann LeRoyer

   This issue features a summary declaration of core policy issues surrounding land management and land markets in Latin America; land value in the context of large urban Latin American projects; the...

7. From the President

   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2005
   Gregory K. Ingram

   The Lincoln Institute has long been involved in international activities that deal with land policy and land taxation issues. In the 1970s those activities focused mainly on training and education....

8. Faculty Profile

   C. Lowell Harriss
   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2005

   C. Lowell Harriss is Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, where he taught economics from 1938 until his retirement in 1981. He then served as executive director of the Academy of Political...

9. Property Tax Development in China

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2005
   Chengri Ding

   The Lincoln Institute’s China Program was established several years ago, in part to develop training programs on property taxation policy and local government finance with officials from the State...

10. Reinventing Conservation Easements

    Revista Land Lines
    Abril 2005
    Jeff Pidot

    A conservation easement is private land, held by a private nonprofit corporation (typically a land trust) or a government agency. Though conservation easements are perceived as a win-win land...