The New Jersey Property Tax: Issues and Options
Research conducted and reported by:

DONALD J. BOYD

Donald J. Boyd is the director of the Fiscal Studies Program at the Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public policy research arm of the State University of New York. The Fiscal Studies Program provides practical independent research about state and local government finances in the 50 states. Don has more than 20 years experience analyzing state and local fiscal issues. His past positions include director of the economic and revenue staff for New York State's budget office, and director of the tax staff for the New York State Assembly Ways and Means Committee. Don holds a Ph.D. in Managerial Economics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Boyd also is deputy director of the Center for Policy Research at the University at Albany, where he focuses on research relating to education issues and teacher labor markets.

WILLIAM F. FOX

Bill Fox is the William B. Stokely Distinguished Professor of Business and the Director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Tennessee. He is past President and recipient of the Steven D. Gold Award from the National Tax Association and former Chairman of the Economics Department at the University of Tennessee. He has held visiting appointments as a Professor at the University of Hawaii and as a scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

Fox has served as a consultant in approximately 25 countries and more than 10 U.S. states on a wide range of public policy issues. He has published extensively in academic and nonacademic journals and is a frequent speaker to business, government, and academic audiences around the world.