TY - JOUR
T1 - The Fiscal Impacts of Alternative Land Uses
T2 - An Empirical Investigation of Cost of Community Services Studies
AU - Clapp, Christopher M.
AU - Freeland, James
AU - Ihlanfeldt, Keith
AU - Willardsen, Kevin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2017.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Current knowledge of the fiscal impacts of alternative land uses comes largely from cost of community services (CCS) case studies, the results of which are viewed skeptically in the literature due to methodological concerns. To address these issues, we develop an econometric approach that allows us to capture both the direct and indirect relationships between a complete accounting of community fiscal measures and the full distribution of acres of land uses in a jurisdiction. Using a novel panel data set, we extensively document empirical correlations that have not yet been formally established in the literature. Our results are inconsistent with the broad conclusions of CCS studies: neither a shift from agricultural to residential land nor a shift to commercial land is associated with a significant change in the budget. We provide support for and insights into our results by extending our analysis to finer revenue/expenditure and land-use subcategories
AB - Current knowledge of the fiscal impacts of alternative land uses comes largely from cost of community services (CCS) case studies, the results of which are viewed skeptically in the literature due to methodological concerns. To address these issues, we develop an econometric approach that allows us to capture both the direct and indirect relationships between a complete accounting of community fiscal measures and the full distribution of acres of land uses in a jurisdiction. Using a novel panel data set, we extensively document empirical correlations that have not yet been formally established in the literature. Our results are inconsistent with the broad conclusions of CCS studies: neither a shift from agricultural to residential land nor a shift to commercial land is associated with a significant change in the budget. We provide support for and insights into our results by extending our analysis to finer revenue/expenditure and land-use subcategories
KW - cost of community services
KW - expenditures
KW - fiscal impact
KW - land use
KW - revenues
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UR - https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/econ/285
U2 - 10.1177/1091142116687842
DO - 10.1177/1091142116687842
M3 - Article
SN - 1091-1421
VL - 46
SP - 850
EP - 878
JO - Public Finance Review
JF - Public Finance Review
IS - 5
ER -