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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. 2023 Lincoln Institute Scholars Program

   Oportunidades de becas
   Enero 2023

3. 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.

4. 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...

5. 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...

6. 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...

7. Not by the Hand of Horace Mann

   How the Quest for Land Value Created the American School System
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2014
   William A. Fischel

   This 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...

8. Collecting Land Value Through Public Land Leasing

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2012
   John E. Anderson

   In 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...

9. Land Value Capture and Justice

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2012
   Susan S. Fainstein

   In 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...

10. Takings and Givings

    The Analytics of Land Value Capture and Its Symmetries with Takings Compensation
    Ponencias
    Mayo 2012
    Perry Shapiro

    In 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...