Senior Lecturer Paula R. Worthington Discusses Property Taxes

Harris Public Policy Senior Lecturer Paula R. Worthington, who is affiliated with the Center for Municipal Finance and serves as the academic director of the Harris Policy Labs program, was featured in WalletHub, answering questions about property taxes.

"Lots of empirical evidence suggests that people are willing to pay more for houses with low property taxes than for similar houses with higher property taxes, assuming the schools and other local public services are similar," wrote Worthington. "So, house prices, property taxes, and local public services are closely related."

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