Papers for Past Webinars

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.

Santosh Anagol, Vimal Balasubramaniam, Tarun Ramadorai, and Antoine Uettwiller

This report, by Santosh Anagol, discusses a new method to estimate under-reporting, and employs it on large and granular administrative data from the Mumbai real estate market. 

Edward Coulson, Brent W. Ambrose, James N. Conklin, Moussa Diop, and Luis A. Lopez

This report, by Edward Coulson, examines the incidence of racial bias in property appraisals using a nationwide sample of refinanced mortgages from 2000 to 2007.

Rebecca Fraenkel

This report, by Rebecca Fraenkel, investigates the effect of property tax changes on individual homeowner mobility and voted tax rates using a panel of individual assessment and sales records in Ohio.

Yael Elster, Itai Ater, and Eran B. Hoffman

This report, by Yael Elster, studies the dual role of real-estate investors, households who own multiple housing units, in ownership and rental housing markets.

Paul J. Fisher

This report, by Paul J. Fisher, leverages differential exposure to the Proposition 13 tax laws to understand the impact of this policy on the production of housing in Southern California.