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1. 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...

2. 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...

3. The Future Role of the Property Tax in the Funding of K12 Education in the United States

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2014
   Andrew Reschovsky

   This paper reviews the role of the property tax in funding K–12 education. At present, local and state governments each contribute a national average of 44 percent of the funds spent on public...

4. Nontraditional Public School Funding Sources

   Trends, Issues, and Outlook
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2014
   Henry Coleman

   This paper by Henry A. Coleman examines a wide range of nontraditional revenue sources, including local-option personal income and general sales taxes, user charges and fees, gaming revenues, private...

5. California’s Parcel Tax

   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2014
   Jon Sonstelie

   Because of limitations on property tax revenue, many local governments in California levy a parcel tax. Like the property tax, a parcel tax is imposed on parcels of real property. Unlike the property...

6. Detroit Property Tax Delinquency

   Social Contract in Crisis
   Documentos de trabajo
   Octubre 2014
   James Alm, Timothy R. Hodge, Gary Sands, and Mark Skidmore

   As the country reemerges from the real estate crisis, the City of Detroit, Michigan continues to struggle, and is currently in the midst of bankruptcy proceedings. Falling property values have led to...

7. The Effects of the Two-Rate Property Tax

   What Can We Learn from the Pennsylvania Experience?
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2014
   Zhou Yang

   This paper empirically investigates the effects of the two-rate (split-rate) property taxation on the capital intensity of land development in Pennsylvania. This study makes the first attempt to...

8. A Global Compendium and Meta-Analysis of Property Tax Systems

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2014
   Richard Almy

   This report is a global compendium of significant features of systems for recurrently taxing land and buildings. It is based on works in English, many of which were published by the Lincoln Institute...

9. La base suelo del impuesto predial en Mexicali, B. C., 1990–2010

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2014
   Ismael López Padilla and Salvador Gómez Rocha

   A partir de las ideas que Henry George expone en su libro, “Progreso y Miseria”, publicado en 1879, desde el enfoque de la economía diversos autores argumentan sobre la introducción de un impuesto...