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1. How Differences in Property Taxes within Cities Affect Urban Sprawl

   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2008
   Yan Song and Yves Zenou

   This article attempts a formal analysis of the connection between the differentiated property tax within urban areas and urban sprawl in U.S. cities. We first develop a theoretical model in which the...

2. Detroit and the Property Tax

   Strategies to Improve Equity and Enhance Revenue
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Noviembre 2015
   Gary Sands and Mark Skidmore

   This report outlines the problems underlying the erosion of Detroit's property tax base—a factor that contributed to the city's bankruptcy in 2013. It offers recommendations for reform...

3. Governing and Financing Cities in the Developing World

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Mayo 2014
   Roy W. Bahl and Johannes F. Linn

   The economic activity that drives growth in developing countries is heavily concentrated in urban areas. Big cities generate the most dynamic economic development, the strongest links to the global...

4. Implementing Value Capture in Latin America

   Policies and Tools for Urban Development
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Junio 2013
   Martim O. Smolka

   This report provides a review of land value capture's antecedents in Latin America and its longstanding presence in the urban planning agenda. It also examines a variety of land value capture...

5. Rethinking Property Tax Incentives for Business

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Junio 2012
   Daphne A. Kenyon, Adam H. Langley, and Bethany P. Paquin

   State and local governments use many types of property tax incentives to increase business development. This report reviews those incentives, summarizes the literature regarding their effectiveness,...

6. The Past and Future of the Urban Property Tax

   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2015
   Grant Driessen and Steven Sheffrin

   For U.S. cities, the property tax is the single largest source of own-source revenue, but the extent to which different cities rely on property tax revenues varies significantly. Grant Driessen and...

7. 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...

8. 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...

9. 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...

10. The Unit Approach to the Taxation of Railroad and Public Utility Property

    Ponencias
    Mayo 2013
    Gary C. Cornia, David J. Crapo, and Lawrence C. Walters

    Administering a property tax system presents ongoing challenges under the best of circumstances. Whether it involves keeping taxpayer rolls up to date, pursuing tax evaders, or updating taxable...