Buscar

Results

1. Measuring the Fiscal Health of U.S. Cities

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Julho 2020
   Howard Chernick and Andrew Reschovsky

   This paper uses a specially constructed data base on city finance that accounts for the revenues and spending of the constituent governments that provide public services in cities—municipal...

2. Methodology Used to Create the Fiscally Standardized Cities Database

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Setembro 2020
   Adam H. Langley

   This paper details the methodology used to create the fiscally standardized cities (FiSCs) database. The data are available for 212 U.S. cities for the 1977–2017 period on the Lincoln Institute...

3. An Examination of Sales Ratio Data and Sources Incorporated into the 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Dezembro 2020
   Bob DeBoer

   The 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study, jointly produced by the Minnesota Center for Fiscal Excellence (MCFE) and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, uses sales ratios to more accurately...

4. Property Tax Delinquency in the United States

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Março 2020
   Jenna DeAngelo

   How does a municipality create a property tax enforcement system that is revenue maximizing (property tax collection is as close to 100 percent as possible) but also fair (homeowners are able to...

5. How States Provide Cities with General Revenue

   An Analysis of Unrestricted State Aid
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Setembro 2020
   Amanda Kass, Michael Pagano, and Farhad Kaab Omeyr

   Municipal governments in the United States generate revenues from their own sources (their authority to charge for services and collect taxes); other governments (intergovernmental revenue); and, by...

6. Household Mobility and Local Government Finance in U.S. Cities

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Fevereiro 2020
   Wenjing Li, Matthew Cushing, and John E. Anderson

   In this paper, we examine how household mobility is affected by the choice of local government finance method (taxation versus debt finance) for U.S. cities. We develop a discrete time dynamic...

7. 2020 C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship Program

   Graduate Student Fellowship
   Oportunidades de Bolsas para Estudantes Graduados
   Janeiro 2020

   The C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship Program assists Ph.D. students, primarily at U.S. universities, whose research complements the Lincoln Institute's interests in land and tax policy.