Attribute (Mis)Reporting and Appraisal Bias
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.
February 24, 2023
A Bad Bunch: Asset Value Under-Reporting in the Mumbai Real Estate Market
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.
February 10, 2023
Do Appraiser and Borrower Race Affect Valuation?
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.
January 27, 2023
Property Tax-Induced Mobility and Redistribution: Evidence from Mass Reappraisals
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.
December 16, 2022
Real-Estate Investors, House Prices and Rents: Evidence from Capital-Gains Tax Changes
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.
December 2, 2022
The Role of Property Tax in California's Housing Crisis
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.
November 18, 2022
How Do Households Value the Future? Evidence from Property Taxes
Hans R.A. Koster and Edward W. Pinchbeck
This report, by Hans Koster, discusses the rate at which individuals trade present and future costs and benefits by estimating discount rates from extensive data on housing transactions and spatiotemporal variation in property taxes in England.
November 4, 2022
Appraisal Overvaluation: Evidence of Price Adjustment Bias in Sales Comparisons
Yanling G. Mayer and Frank E. Nothaft
This report, by Yanling G. Mayer, delves into the underlying appraisal development
to identify causes of appraisal bias.
October 21, 2022
The Effects of Fiscal Decentralization on Publicly Provided Services and Labor Market
Nicola Bianchi, Michela Giorcelli, and Enrica Maria Martino
This report, by Nicola Bianchi, studies how fiscal decentralization affects local services. It explores a 1993 reform that increased the fiscal autonomy of Italian municipalities by replacing government transfers with revenues from a local property tax and how the reform affected labor markets.
October 7, 2022
Federal Tax Deductions and the Demand for Local Public Goods
Brent W. Ambrose and Maxence Valentin
This report, by Brent W. Ambrose, provides new insights into the equity of the current tax system.
September 23, 2022