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1. School Quality, School Choice, and Residential Mobility

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2014
   Eric Brunner

   Eric J. Brunner reviews two areas of research concerning the link between residential location and school quality: (1) the long-standing and growing literature on the effects of a residentially based...

2. Charter Schools and Minority Access to Quality Education

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2014
   John Logan, Julia Burdick-Will, and Elisabeta Minca

   John R. Logan, Julia Burdick-Will, and Elisabeta Minca contribute a complementary analysis of charter schools across the United States. Their sample included only districts with at least one non-...

3. Beyond “Accidents of Geography”

   Using Housing Policy to Improve Access to Quality Education
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2014
   Elizabeth Mueller and Shannon Van Zandt

   Elizabeth J. Mueller and Shannon S. Van Zandt argue that private restrictive covenants, land use and zoning regulations, and federal housing policies have played a major role in creating income and...

4. What Is the Value of Infrastructure Maintenance?

   A Survey
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2013
   Felix Rioja

   Public infrastructure has been established as the foundation for the productive activities of a country. Road and rail networks, water systems, power generating and distribution systems, and...

5. How and Why Does the Quality of Infrastructure Service Delivery Vary?

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2013
   George R. G. Clarke

   In this paper, presented by George R. G. Clarke at Lincoln Institute’s 2012 Conference on Infrastructure and Land Policy the author observes that access to infrastructure and the quality of...

6. Institutions and Politics of Metropolitan Management

   Ponencias
   Abril 2013
   Inder Sud and Serder Yilmaz

   In this paper by Inder Sud and Serdar Yilmaz, the authors point out the fact that metropolitan cities play a vital role in economic development. In most countries they account for a significant share...

7. Metropolitan Public Finance

   An Overview
   Ponencias
   Abril 2013
   Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack

   This paper by Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack is based on their observation that not all big cities are very rich, but they are all, by definition, big, and most of them are also rich relative to...

8. Property Taxes in Metropolitan Cities

   Ponencias
   Abril 2013
   William J. McCluskey and Riël C. D. Franzsen

   In this paper, William J. McCluskey and Riel C. D. Franzsen review property taxation focusing on metropolitan cities in developing and transitional countries. Since there is no comparative data to...

9. Paying for Urbanization in China

   Challenges of Municipal Finance in the Twenty-First Century
   Ponencias
   Abril 2013
   Christine P. Wong

   China is urbanizing, and the pace is accelerating. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported a population of 1.34 billion at year end 2010, fully half of them living in cities (CSY 2011)....

10. Metropolitan Governance and Finance in São Paulo

    Ponencias
    Abril 2013
    Deborah L. Wetzel

    With a population of 11.2 million residents, São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere, and the world’s seventh largest city by population. The city is...