Report-Oregon-Property-Tax-Capitalization-FINAL
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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 />
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