This paper investigates the financial burdens of changes in property taxes on homeowners, a margin that is not well studied in the literature. Exploiting a unique reform in Philadelphia that generated changes in property taxes across census tracts without changing the provision of public goods...

How have the longer journeys to work faced by Black commuters evolved in the United States over the last four decades? Black commuters spent 50.3 more minutes commuting per week in 1980 than White commuters; this difference declined to 22.4 minutes per week in 2019. Two factors account for the...