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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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Experimenting with Land Value Capture on Western State Trust Land
PonenciasMayo 2012Susan Culp and Dan HuntingThe use of land value capture to finance investments in state trust land is another potential extension of the concept. Traditionally, state trust land has been leased to private companies and...
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Interjurisdictional Competition Under U.S. Fiscal Federalism
PonenciasMayo 2008Sally WallaceSimilar to the decentralization of environmental policy, scholars and analysts also express concerns about the welfare effects of interjurisdictional competition on economic development under U.S....
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Public and Private School Competition and U.S. Fiscal Federalism
PonenciasMayo 2008Thomas J. NechybaThe traditional public school finance system under U.S. fiscal federalism has generated concern that the use of housing markets to ration resources and students to public schools may increase income...
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Land Value Taxation as a Method of Financing Municipal Expenditures in U.S. Cities
PonenciasMayo 2007To what extent could local governments employ land and property taxation to recoup a portion of these land values for financing local services and infrastructure? Richard W. England tackles this...