commercial new construction and demolition data, and votes to renew municipal tax levies
Description
aggregate dollar amount of new construction and demolition of commercial buildings in Ohio 1991 - 2018 by municipality (village, city, township). matched to votes to renew current expenditure tax levies and Census characteristics. replication files for David M. Brasington, Daniel P. McMillen and Evan Carson, "Effect of local government taxes and spending on the redevelopment of commercial property," accepted for publication by Regional Science and Urban Economics in January, 2026. citations of this article certainly welcomed!
Files
Steps to reproduce
demolition and new construction data gathered from Ohio Department of Taxation. voting data gathered from Ohio Secretary of State. Census data gathered from Census Bureau. rdrobust software used to run the regression discontinuity regressions like so: rdrobust comdemolished_lead2 pctfor, p(1) q(2) c(0.5) bwselect (mserd) kernel(tri) vce(nn 3) all covs(pop poverty pctwithkids pctbachelors pctlt5 pct5to17) to replicate the service-oriented and manufacturing-oriented results you need to merge with industrial_employment_cosub_place_2010_2015.dta and either keep or drop if pctmfgjobs_2010 < 0.20 to replicate the growing and declining cities results you have to generate chpop3 = (pop_lead3-pop)/pop and keep if chpop3 > -0.003 to keep the above-median growing municipalities