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1. China Program International Fellowship 2024-25

   Oportunidades de becas
   Agosto 2023

   A call for proposals for academic and policy research papers addressing land, urban, fiscal and environmental issues relating to urbanization in China.

2. Research on Land-Based Financing Approaches for Climate Action

   Solicitud de propuestas
   Febrero 2023

3. 2023 Lincoln Institute Scholars Program

   Oportunidades de becas
   Enero 2023

4. 2021 Lincoln Institute Scholars Program

   Fellowship
   Oportunidades de becas
   Enero 2021

   This program provides an opportunity for recent PhDs specializing in public finance or urban economics to work with senior economists.

5. Doing Bad by Doing Good?

   An Empirical Analysis of the Incentives from Informal Settlements’ Upgrading Programs on Urban Informality
   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2019
   Cynthia Goytia and Guadalupe Dorna

   This paper has two different aims. First, we investigate the effects of informal settlements upgrading programs through a systematic review synthesizing the information provided by evaluations of...

6. Detroit and the Property Tax

   Strategies to Improve Equity and Enhance Revenue
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Noviembre 2015
   Gary Sands and Mark Skidmore

   This report outlines the problems underlying the erosion of Detroit's property tax base—a factor that contributed to the city's bankruptcy in 2013. It offers recommendations for reform...

7. Rethinking Property Tax Incentives for Business

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Junio 2012
   Daphne A. Kenyon, Adam H. Langley, and Bethany P. Paquin

   State and local governments use many types of property tax incentives to increase business development. This report reviews those incentives, summarizes the literature regarding their effectiveness,...

8. An Evaluation of China’s Land Policy and Urban Housing Markets

   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2015
   Joyce Y. Man

   In this paper, Joyce Y. Man examines the evolution of Chinese housing policies and the growth of the Chinese housing market since the reforms of 1998, when the Chinese government ended its...

9. Housing Policies and Urban Development

   Lessons from the Latin American Experience, 1960–2010
   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2015
   Eduardo Rojas

   Access and opportunity are tied in many different ways to location. One’s neighborhood and neighbors can have dramatic effects on health and political, socioeconomic, and education opportunities and...

10. Is Location Fate?

    Distributional Aspects of Schooling
    Ponencias
    Mayo 2014
    Eric Hanushek

    Eric A. Hanushek analyzes the impact of human capital on economic outcomes, arguing that cognitive skills are a better measure of human capital than years of schooling. He focuses on urban schools...