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1. Climate Change and U.S. Cities

   Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptations
   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2015
   William Solecki

   William Solecki examines the challenge climate change creates for city planning complicated by the fact that barring serious intervention, some urban land may eventually be underwater. Climate change...

2. Foreclosures and Neighborhoods

   The Shape and Impacts of the U.S. Mortgage Crisis
   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2015
   Dan Immergluck

   This paper explores the root cause of municipal fiscal stress and documents the effects of foreclosures in the United States. The author, Dan Immergluck, examines the household- and neighborhood-...

3. Socioeconomic Segregation Between Schools in the United States and Latin America, 1970–2012

   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2015
   Anna K. Chmielewski and Corey Savage

   In this paper, Anna K. Chmielewski and Corey Savage examine school data to compare socioeconomic segregation in the United States and Latin America. They link trends in inequality and segregation in...

4. Demographic Change and Future Urban Development

   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2015

   The authors offer a cautious overview of demographic trends in the United States and their consequences for housing and urban development between 1990 and 2030.

5. Local Government Finances During and After the Great Recession

   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2015

   Using data from the Fiscally Standardized Cities (FiSC) database, Langley documents the impact of the Great Recession on major revenue sources for local governments across the United States.

6. 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...

7. 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...

8. Charter School Location

   Evidence and Policy Implications
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2014
   Robert Bifulco

   Charter schools are just one school choice option, but one of the options that is growing rapidly. Robert Bifulco contributes a thorough review of the literature on charter school location, pointing...

9. Charter Schools and Minority Access to Quality Education

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2014
   John Logan, Julia Burdick-Will, and Elisabeta Minca

   John R. Logan, Julia Burdick-Will, and Elisabeta Minca contribute a complementary analysis of charter schools across the United States. Their sample included only districts with at least one non-...

10. Community Characteristics of Homeschooling

    The Case of Virginia
    Ponencias
    Mayo 2014
    Luke Miller

    In this paper, Luke C. Miller addresses homeschooling, a form of school choice that has been increasing rapidly and in which students now outnumber those attending charter schools. Using school...