Picking Up the PACE: Loans for Residential Climate-Proofing
Cameron LaPoint, Aymeric Bellon, Francesco Mazzola, and Guosong Xu
This report, by Cameron LaPoint, collects new PACE loan-level data and develop a novel approach to recover households’ home improvement investment decisions from permit descriptions.
December 6, 2024
Tax Streams, Land Rents, and Urban Land Allocation
Yugang Tang, Zhihao Su, Yilin Hou, and Zhendong Yin
This report, by Yilin Hou, examines the fiscal motives behind the allocation of land in Chinese cities by municipal governments for commercial and residential use.
November 22, 2024
Property Taxes and the Great Recession: The Role of Property Tax Limits
Thomas Brosy and Chiara Ferrero
This report, by Thomas Brosy, explores the impact of the Great Recession and falling
housing prices on local property tax revenues.
November 1, 2024
Under the (neighbor)Hood: Understanding Interactions Among Zoning Regulations
Amrita Kulka, Aradhya Sood, and Nicholas Chiumenti
This report, by Amrita Kulka, finds that relaxing density restrictions (such as minimum lot size), alone or combined with relaxing other regulations, is most effective at increasing housing supply, particularly of multifamily properties, and reducing per-housing-unit rents and prices.
October 18, 2024
Effects of Shrinking Population on Local Government and Housing Markets: Evidence from Japan
Shinya Inukai
This report, by Shinya Inukai, estimates 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 Ruggieri, constructs 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