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1. 2024 Fundamentals of Municipal Finance Credential

   Cursos
   Mayo 13, 2024

   This four-day professional credential program provides a thorough foundation in municipal finance with a focus on urban planning and economic development in the United States.

2. 2024 Lincoln Institute Scholars Program

   Oportunidades de becas
   Enero 2024

   The Lincoln Institute Scholars Program provides an opportunity for recent PhDs (one to two years post-graduate) specializing in public finance or urban economics to work with senior academics. Applications are due March 8, 2024, by 11:59 p.m. (EDT).

3. Rethinking the Property Tax-School Funding Dilemma

   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Febrero 2023
   By Daphne A. Kenyon, Bethany Paquin, and Andrew Reschovsky

   This policy brief focuses on the roles of the local property tax and state aid in the funding of public education and analyzes their strengths and weaknesses. A key theme is the property tax–...

4. Lincoln Institute Sessions at the 2023 IAAO Annual Conference

   Conferencias
   Agosto 29, 2023
   Ron Rakow, Paul Bidanset, Gary Cornia, and Nathan Seegert

   The annual conference of the International Association of Assessing Officers (IAAO) offers state and local assessing officials the opportunity to hear varied perspectives on property tax issues from...

5. Introduction to the Property Tax–School Funding Connection

   Diciembre 2022

   Property taxation and school funding are closely linked in the United States. Forty-five percent of total public K–12 education revenues come from local governments and 80 percent of the local share...

6. How State Aid and Local Property Taxes Can Together Fund Quality Education for All Students

   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 2022
   By Allison Ehrich Bernstein, November 15, 2022

   Local property taxes and state aid each have flaws, but a thoughtful combination of these two revenue sources is the most effective recipe for funding a high-quality K–12 education for all...

7. Mayor’s Desk: Cultivating Climate Resilience in Sierra Leone

   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 2022
   By Anthony Flint, November 10, 2022

   Freetown, Sierra Leone, is one of seven cities around the world that have appointed chief heat officers as part of a global effort to invest in a climate-resilient future. Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr...

8. 2023 C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship Program

   Graduate Student Fellowship
   Oportunidades de becas de posgrado
   Enero 2023

   The C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship Program assists PhD students, primarily at U.S. universities, whose research complements the Lincoln Institute's interests in land and tax policy.

9. How Property Tax Limits Shift Burdens to New Home Buyers

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2022
   By Will Jason, July 13, 2022.

   Produced annually. the 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study provides the nation’s most comprehensive analysis of local property tax rates by calculating the effective tax rate—the tax paid as a percentage of market value—for 74 large U.S. cities and a r

10. Designing School Aid Formulas to Achieve High-Quality and Equitable Education

    Documentos de trabajo
    Mayo 2022
    Andrew Reschovsky

    This paper describes the school funding formulas necessary to achieve five broad funding goals that have driven school finance policies over the past 50 years. After briefly summarizing the type of...