Vehicle personal property taxes recently existed in 31 states. Using data collected during the phaseout of the tax in Virginia, we analyze the effect of differing tax rates on the personal vehicle count and value data in 134 locales. We find that each increase in the effective property tax of...

The literature offers both supply-side and cotton demand-side explanations for the reduced level and growth of income in the postbellum South. Demand-side evidence begins with a single-equation relationship regressing the price of cotton on quantity and a trend term, although subsequent...

States raise revenue and provide a service when offering to personalize license plates. To determine the revenuE-maximizing price and the marginal deadweight loss per dollar of net revenue, one must estimate both the slope and shift factors of the demand for vanity license plates. Shift factors...