Other Center Researchers
Terri A. Sexton, Associate Director (pdf)
Terri A. Sexton holds a B.S. in Economics, a Bachelor of Mathematics, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota. Sexton is a professor of economics at California State University, Sacramento, and associate director of the Center for State and Local Taxation. She served as a member of the Task Force on Fiscal Reform of the California Business-Higher Education Forum.
Sexton has served as co-investigator for several tax related studies, including a property tax oversight study for the California State Board of Equalization. Sexton was also a co-author of the comprehensive study of the economic and fiscal impacts of Proposition 13 with Steven M. Sheffrin and Arthur O'Sullivan that culminated in Property Taxes and Tax Revolts: The Legacy of Proposition 13 (Cambridge University Press, 1995). Her research has appeared in such publications as National Tax Journal, Land Economics, Rand Journal of Economics, and Journal of Urban Economics.
Arthur O'Sullivan
Arthur O'Sullivan is an affiliate of the Center for State and Local Taxation. O'Sullivan is a professor of economics at Lewis and Clark College and holds a PhD from Princeton University.
O'Sullivan's research interests lay in areas of microeconomic theory, urban and regional economics, public finance, and environmental economics. His research has appeared in such outlets as the Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and Regional Science and Urban Economics. He is also the author of Urban Economics (McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2006), the most popular textbook in the field. He has participated in several major projects under the auspices of the Center for State and Local Taxation.
Therese McCarty
Therese McCarty is an affiliate of the Center for State and Local Taxation and a professor of economics at Union College. Her areas of expertise include public finance and the economics of education. She has published a variety of papers on state and local public finance issues in National Tax Journal, Public Finance Review, American Economics Review, and Economics of Education Review. She participated in a study of property tax allocation in California under the auspices of the Center for State and Local Taxation.
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