"This report estimates the impact that high levels of enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program (CPR) have had on economic trends in rural counties since the program's inception in 1985 until today"...Abstract (p. i)

We assess the concentration and duration of zero tax liabilities and of transfer receipts, using data for households with ten to forty years of observations from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics. We find that neither is strongly concentrated. Nearly 68% owe no federal tax in at least one...