Papers for Past Webinars

Justin Holz, David Novgorodsky, and Andrew Simon

This report, by Justin Holz, uses two field experiments, one with homeowners and the other with county assessors, to understand the drivers of inequality in property taxes and homeowner appeal behavior.

Valeria Merlo, Andreas Schanbacher, Georg U. Thunecke, and Georg Wamser

This report, by Georg Thunecke, studies tax policy interaction among local governments for both mobile and immobile tax bases.

Sacha Dray, Camille Landais, and Stefanie Stantcheva

This report, by Stefanie Stantcheva, studies the history and geography of wealth accumulation in the U.S., using newly collected historical property tax records since the early 1800s.

Marina Gindelsky, Jeremy Moulton, Kelly Wentland, and Scott Wentland

This report, by Jeremy Moulton, investigates salience in the context of property taxes, exploring how accurately households perceive their property tax liabilities and what factors determine misperception.

Sebastien Bradley, Da Huang, and Nathan Seegert

This report, by Sebastien Bradley, shows that property tax limitations can expose households to greater systematic risk despite reducing intertemporal variation in tax amounts overall. 

Yoon-Jung Choi, Yilin Hou, and John Yinger

This report, by Yoon-Jung Choi, examines assessment disparities across racial and income groups and documents the impact of reassessment on this disparities.

Francis Wong

This report, by Francis Wong, is the first study to document the role of non-neoclassical savings behavior in determining homeowners' responses to property taxes.

Cameron LaPoint

This report, by Cameron LaPoint, constructs a new nationwide registry of local tax sales to examine how property tax delinquencies facilitate institutional real estate investment in major U.S. metro areas, and the effects of these acquisitions on neighborhood composition and housing disparities.

Matthijs Korevaar and Peter Koudijs

This report, by Matthijs Korevaar, provides the first empirical estimates of the long-run effects of shocks to property taxation on lifetime wealth accumulation and investment. 

Michael D. Eriksen, Chun Kuang, and Wenyu Zhu

This report, by Michael Eriksen, assembles a property-level panel of appraiser reported attributes associated with 4.6 million loan applications from 2013 to 2017 to test whether attributes were consistently reported.