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14<br />

OREGON PROPERTY TAX CAPITALIZATION: EVIDENCE FROM PORTLAND<br />

In the literature covering the determinants of sale price, school quality is frequently found to be<br />

significant. To incorporate this variable, we used the geocoded addresses and joined each to an<br />

elementary school catchment area. Most of the properties were assigned a Portland Public<br />

Schools elementary school, but the properties in East Portland were assigned to the appropriate<br />

school in the Reynolds, David Douglas, Parkrose, or Centennial School Districts. The state<br />

publishes reading and math scores for each school which represented the percentage of students<br />

that met or exceeded state standards; these were used as our measure of school quality.<br />

The following figures illustrate differences in sale property characteristics by neighborhood. As<br />

we explain in later sections, property characteristics and neighborhood amenities tend to cluster<br />

geographically; properties tend to be grouped by size, age, and sale price. This means that we<br />

can experience confounding effects when using all potential variables. Table I below summarizes<br />

population, population growth, mean sale price, mean age of house sold and mean size of house<br />

sold as a supplement to the graphical presentations.<br />

<strong>Oregon</strong>’s Electric Vehicle Industry<br />

Northwest Economic Research Center

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