The inelastic supply of land suggests that taxation of land might be neutral. Feldstein (1977) suggests otherwise, in that taxation reduces risk, and this may raise demand among risk-averse lenders. We simulate the effect of this demand increase and find that the impact in the aggregate is...

The subsidization of homeownership is justified on efficiency grounds only to the extent that it provides benefits to people other than the homeowner. We use the clustered neighborhoods subsample in the American Housing Survey to measure that benefit in the form of higher housing prices in...

We use panel data, endogenous switching and instrumental variables to assess the externality value of neighborhood home-ownership. Using the cluster samples of the 1985, 1989 and 1993 American Housing Survey, we find some variation in the estimate of this value, depending on the assumptions made...