Tax compliance remains an obstacle to the building of state capacity in many developing countries. Conventional wisdom suggests a link between taxation and political representation, yet recent field experiments have often failed to find consistent evidence to support this link. We argue that...

This paper examines real property tax as a determinant of tenure choice. The analysis is conducted in two stages. First, parameter estimates for a reduced-form homeownership model are obtained through multivariate analysis of data drawn from the U.S. Survey of Income and Program Participation...