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- Title
School Finance Reform and Rural Land Use Policy Incentives.
- Authors
Rosner, Monroe H.; Barrows, Richard L.
- Abstract
The market economy operates by individuals or firms responding to various price signals. These signals become incentives that guide individual behavior and determine the output of the private sector. Decisionmakers in the public sector also respond to signals and incentives, although of a different nature. The fiscal impact of tax base changes and the incentives faced by local government officials are subtly but critically changed by the drive for equal educational opportunity. The drive for equal educational opportunity has dramatically affected the impact of public lands and new development on property taxes. State school aid systems based on district power equalization neutralize much of the property tax impact of changes in tax base. The new systems of school finance may have considerable implications for public land policy. Since changes in public land mean only slight changes in property tax rates, local leaders will have little fiscal incentive to oppose public land programs.
- Subjects
WISCONSIN; UNITED States; EDUCATION policy; RURAL land use; EDUCATIONAL finance; PROPERTY tax; TAX base; LABOR incentives; PUBLIC sector; REAL estate business
- Publication
Land Economics, 1977, Vol 53, Issue 3, p289
- ISSN
0023-7639
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3146121