Citation

Hutchinson T, Ahmed I, Buryi P. Appl. Econ. Lett. 2017; 24(18): 1277-1279.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/13504851.2016.1270411

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The present work considers the level of demonstrated happiness and unhappiness within groups, the latter measured by the conditional probability of suicide within groups facing an income tax rate and those without. Using US data for the year 2004, our results show that individuals have lower rates of suicide or are 'happy' when they do not pay income taxes than those who pay. © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Language: en

Keywords

Happiness; state income tax; suicide