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An Evaluation of China’s Land Policy and Urban Housing Markets
PonenciasNoviembre 2015In 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...
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Housing Policies and Urban Development
Lessons from the Latin American Experience, 1960–2010PonenciasNoviembre 2015Eduardo RojasAccess 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...
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Is Location Fate?
Distributional Aspects of SchoolingPonenciasMayo 2014Eric HanushekEric 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...
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Not by the Hand of Horace Mann
How the Quest for Land Value Created the American School SystemPonenciasMayo 2014This paper by William A. Fischel is an economic history of K–12 education and the structure of school districts. As the second part of the title suggests, Fischel argues that land or property values...
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Collecting Land Value Through Public Land Leasing
PonenciasMayo 2012In this paper, John E. Anderson examines the experience of leasing public land in China. Specifically, he addresses the issues related to the adoption of a proposed ad valorem property tax within a...
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Land Value Capture and Justice
PonenciasMayo 2012Susan S. FainsteinIn this paper, Susan S. Fainstein examines the arguments for using land value capture for distributive purposes. Her assertion is founded on Henry George’s idea that land value increments created by...
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Takings and Givings
The Analytics of Land Value Capture and Its Symmetries with Takings CompensationPonenciasMayo 2012Perry ShapiroIn this paper, Perry Shapiro examines the efficiency of value capture by analyzing the symmetries and asymmetries between givings and takings. Ideally, if a government asks landowners to reimburse it...
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The Unearned Increment
Property and the Capture of Betterment Value in Britain and FrancePonenciasMayo 2012Philip A. BoothIn this paper, Philip A. Booth shows land value capture is closely linked to institutions that define property in land. Thus, we need to consider how property has been constructed in the law,...
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Town Planning Schemes as a Hybrid Land Readjustment Process in Ahmedabad, India
A Better Way to Grow?PonenciasMayo 2012Bishwapriya Sanyal and Chandan DeuskarIn India, local governments have increasingly relied on town planning schemes (TPS) to influence urban growth and to finance affordable housing and basic infrastructure. TPS is a hybrid land...
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Are Property-Related Taxes Effective Value Capture Instruments?
PonenciasMayo 2012Lawrence C. WaltersIn examining the practicality of using property taxes to capture land value in the United States, Lawrence C. Walters found that the annual property tax is an effective value capture instrument. He...
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