A MODEL TO EXPLAIN PARTICIPATION IN NEW YORK'S AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS AND USE-VALUE ASSESSMENT PROGRAMS

Richard N. Boisvert, Nelson L. Bills and Elizabeth Bailey

Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1988, vol. 17, issue 2, 14

Abstract: Logit regression models are estimated to identify factors affecting decisions to enroll farmland in New York's agricultural districts program and participate in the use-value assessment program. The results suggest that the districts law is consistent with preserving the best farmland at the rural-urban fringe and that the decision to enroll in agricultural districts affects in a recursive fashion the decision to participate in the use-value assessment program. Short-term monetary gains are the overriding considerations in applying for use-value exemptions. This may lead to additional erosion of the tax base via tax preferences for agricultural land.

Keywords: Land; Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.28836

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