#20 - Breakdown: The effect of property taxes on businesses: Evidence from a dynamic regression discontinuity approach

07/03/2025 7 min
#20 - Breakdown: The effect of property taxes on businesses: Evidence from a dynamic regression discontinuity approach

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We employ a dynamic regression discontinuity design comparing business outcomes in areas that passed additional school property taxes to business outcomes in areas that failed to do so. On average, these referenda increase local property taxes by approximately 8 percent. We find little evidence that passage of a property tax referendum influences the total number of establishments in the district in the following years. Further, there is little evidence that property taxes affect total establishment births or deaths. Heterogeneity analysis does not find differences across various measures of firm exposure to property taxes. Authors: Enami, Ali, C. Lockwood Reynolds, and Shawn M. Rohlin

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