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1. 2024 C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship Program

   Oportunidades de becas de posgrado
   Enero 2024

   The Lincoln Institute’s C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship Program assists PhD students whose research complements the institute’s interest in property valuation and taxation. Applications are due March 1, 2024, by 6:00 p.m. EST.

2. Effects of Reducing the Role of the Local Property Tax in Funding K-12 Education

   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2021
   Daphne Kenyon and Semida Munteanu

   Between 1989 and 2018, while national reliance on local property taxation to fund K-12 education remained quite stable, 24 states increased reliance on the local property tax, while 25 states...

3. Property Taxes

   What Everybody Needs to Know
   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2021
   Ronald C. Fisher

   The property tax is the largest single source of revenue under the control of state or local governments in the United States. Property taxes provide a fundamental fiscal foundation for all types of...

4. Split-Rate Taxation

   Impacts on Tax Base
   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2021
   Zhou Yang and Zackary Hawley

   Municipalities debating land value taxation or split-rate taxation need empirical evidence to understand how the transition of property tax regimes will affect their tax base. Using a valuable data...

5. Split-Rate Taxation and Business Establishment Location

   Evidence from the Pennsylvania Experience
   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2021
   Andrew Hanson

   This paper estimates the relationship between business establishment location and split-rate property taxation. Using variation in split-rate adoption and intensity by municipalities across...

6. Assessment of Property Tax Reductions on Tax Delinquency, Tax Foreclosure, and Home Ownership

   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2021
   Fernanda Alfaro, Dusan Paredes, and Mark Skidmore

   In this report, we provide an evaluation of the impacts in Detroit of reductions in residential effective tax rates on tax delinquency, property tax foreclosure, and homeownership. The decline in...

7. Measuring the Fiscal Health of U.S. Cities

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2020
   Howard Chernick and Andrew Reschovsky

   This paper uses a specially constructed data base on city finance that accounts for the revenues and spending of the constituent governments that provide public services in cities—municipal...

8. Property Tax Delinquency in the United States

   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2020
   Jenna DeAngelo

   How does a municipality create a property tax enforcement system that is revenue maximizing (property tax collection is as close to 100 percent as possible) but also fair (homeowners are able to...

9. Household Mobility and Local Government Finance in U.S. Cities

   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2020
   Wenjing Li, Matthew Cushing, and John E. Anderson

   In this paper, we examine how household mobility is affected by the choice of local government finance method (taxation versus debt finance) for U.S. cities. We develop a discrete time dynamic...

10. The Future of U.S. Public School Revenue from the Property Tax

    Resúmenes de políticas públicas
    Septiembre 2017
    Andrew Reschovsky, Research Fellow, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    This Policy Brief examines the property tax as a critical source of revenue for public schools in the United States. It demonstrates the high proportion of public education funding provided by the...