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Land Ownership in Rural-Urban Fringe Areas of Pennsylvania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Arthur B. Daugherty  and
Donald J. Epp
Arthur B. Daugherty
Affiliation:
Natural Resource Economics Division, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Donald J. Epp
Affiliation:
Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University
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Since land accounts for more than 23 percent of the wealth in the United States, information concerning who ultimately makes decisions about how the resource is used and claims returns or benefits from the resource assumes great importance. Land ownership effects land use decisions, including all activities on the land, and influences the distribution of wealth, income, and other measures of well-being. Additional knowledge of who owns the land and his attitudes, goals, and objectives of ownership is needed to analyze the effectiveness of existing policies and to develop new policies for application in guiding the development and use of the land resource.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , April 1975 , pp. 62 - 75
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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