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In this paper, we report a study on how property taxes influence land use change decisions of Georgia private landowners. We analyze National Resources Inventory plot-level land use data and county-level socio-economic data using a panel random parameter logit model. Our results indicate that property taxes have significantly negative impacts on private landowners’ land-use change decisions, but these impacts are relatively small.
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This study is supported by the National Research Initiative of the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, USDA, Grant #USDA-2005-3540015262. We would like to thank Ruben N. Lubowski from Environmental Defense Fund and Ellen Mills from Georgia Department of Revenue for providing land economic returns and property taxes data. We acknowledge Maksym Polyakov, Gloria Umali, and the two anonymous reviewers of the journal for their helpful comments. Any remaining errors are the responsibility of the authors.
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Meng, L., Zhang, D. Impacts of property tax on land use change decisions in Georgia. Urban Ecosyst 16, 3–12 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-011-0172-9
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