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Effects of Shrinking Population on Local Government and Housing Markets: Evidence from Japan

Shinya Inukai
This report, by Shinya Inukaiestimates the impacts of declining populations on municipalities and housing
markets using difference-in-differences models.
October 4, 2024

Estimation of Welfare Effects in Hedonic Difference-in-Differences: The Case in School Redistricting

Xiaozhou Ding, Christopher Bollinger, Michael Clark, and William Hoyt
This report, by William Hoyt, find significant differences in both the capitalization effects and welfare changes associated with the school redistricting.
September 13, 2024

The Geography of the U.S. Property Tax

Francesco Ruggieri
This report, by Francesco Ruggiericonstructs a novel, granular georeferenced dataset on the universe of local governments in the U.S. and their property tax rates from the early 2000s to 2022. Using this dataset and key concepts pulled from his other paper titled "A Spatial Theory of Overlapping Local Governments," Ruggieri presents new descriptive insights on the geography of the property tax.
August 30, 2024

Tax Flights

Koleman Strumpf
This report, by Koleman Strumpf, studies the method of tax evasion wherein strategic plane owners evade property taxes by flying to certain locations on a particular date, also known as "tax flights."
May 10, 2024

Assessment Regressivity and the Homestead Exemption

Ruchi Singh and Daniel McMillen
This report, by Ruchi Singh, calculates the size of the homestead exemption that would eliminate regressivity for 9,091 municipalities. 
May 3, 2024

Optimal Property Taxes

Arpit Gupta
This report, by Arpit Gupta, studies optimal property taxes.
April 12, 2024

Real Estate Investors and Property Taxation

Serena Wenjing Xiao
This report, by Serena Xiao, studies the inequality in property taxation in the U.S. single-family home market based on a property’s assessed value.
April 1, 2024

County Property Tax Capitalization in U.S. Cities

Kyle Kopplin
This report, by Kyle Kopplin, demonstrates varying responses to statutory property tax rate increases and decreases along the distribution of house prices in counties containing large U.S. cities.
March 25, 2024

Property Tax Assessment and Housing Market Cycles

Christopher Berry and Qining Wang
This report, by Christopher Berry, finds that the sources of property tax stability derive primarily from a failure to fully adjust assessed values as market values change within a jurisdiction. 
March 4, 2024

Implicit Land Taxes and Their Effect on the Real Economy

Daniel Murphy and Nathan Seegert
This report, by Nathan Seegert, shows that land taxes are associated with higher density, neighborhood diversity, business formation, and other indicators of economic performance.
February 2, 2024

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