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How Homestead Exemptions Can Counteract Regressivity in Property Tax Assessments
Documentos de trabajoMarzo 2024Ron Rakow, Lincoln Institute of Land PolicyEvidence presented in several recent academic studies using national datasets indicates widespread regressivity in property tax assessments. This can be due to statutory limits on assessment levels...
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Moving Beyond Conventional Economic Development Practice
An Asset-Based Framework for Sustainable CommunitiesDocumentos de trabajoEnero 2024Haegi Kwon, Lincoln Institute of Land PolicyMany factors contribute to growing inequalities in the United States. This report focuses on how economic development policies and practices may contribute to more equitable cities and regions. It...
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Successful Property Tax Reform: The Case of Massachusetts
Educación a distanciaEnero 26, 2022Faculty: Karl E. Case, Jane Malme, and Ronald RakowThis course examines the deep problems of the Massachusetts property tax in the 1970s and the subsequent reforms that created one of the most functional and fair systems in the United States.
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Land-Based Mitigation Strategies and Their Implications for Local Communities in the Global South
Documentos de trabajoSeptiembre 2023Katherine A. SnyderLand-based carbon mitigation strategies are receiving considerable interest for their potential to sink carbon or provide sources of alterative clean energy. The actors and agencies in this sector...
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Foundations of Local Government Finance in the United States
Educación a distanciaNoviembre 9, 2022This online self-paced course provides an overview of how local governments in the U.S. raise and spend money for the public services and infrastructure that are foundational to a high quality of life.
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China's Policy to Limit Use of Public-Private Partnerships by Municipalities to Finance Capital Improvements
A Regression Discontinuity Design Analysis of the Fiscal ImpactDocumentos de trabajoJunio 2023Robert Bland, Jingran Sun, and Yu ShiChina’s rapid urbanization in the past four decades combined with the national government’s ambitious goals for economic growth have pressured public officials in prefectural cities to...
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Cities in Post-Pandemic China
Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Intercity Mobility Patterns, Migration-Related Attitudes, and Urban GovernanceDocumentos de trabajoMayo 2023Hengyu GuThe new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has swept the world since 2020, causing considerable attention from academia, media, and policymakers. Entering the post-pandemic era, despite the...
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New Hampshire: Heavy Property Tax Reliance and Longstanding School Finance Litigation
Documentos de trabajoAbril 2023Semida Munteanu, Bethany Paquin, and Sydney ZelinkaNew Hampshire does not levy a broad-based sales or individual income tax and therefore is the state most reliant on property taxes. In 1999, New Hampshire dramatically changed its system of school...
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China’s Shifting Demographic Geography
Insights from the 2020 CensusDocumentos de trabajoFebrero 2023Douglas Webster, Jianming Cai, Larissa Muller, and Feifei ZhangThis monograph identifies key changes (trends, abrupt changes) in the 21st Century spatial distribution of the Chinese population, based primarily on absolute and relative changes between the 2010 (...
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Salud Fiscal Municipal: Hacia Ciudades Más Justas, Resilientes y Sostenibles
Educación a distanciaMarzo 1, 2021Coordinadora: Claudia De CesareEl curso aborda la salud fiscal municipal, la cual se deriva de la armonía entre la producción de ingresos, su apropiación y su utilización para el beneficio de la comunidad.
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