Arbeitspapier
Happy taxpayers? Income taxation and well-being
This paper offers a first empirical investigation of how labor taxation (income and payroll taxes) affects individuals' well-being. For identification, we exploit exogenous variation in tax rules over time and across demographic groups using 26 years of German panel data. We find that the tax effect on subjective well-being is significant and positive when controlling for income net of taxes. This interesting result is robust to numerous specification checks. It is consistent with several possible channels through which taxes affect welfare including public goods, insurance, redistributive taste and tax morale.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research ; No. 526
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
Public Goods
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
taxation
public goods
Bargain, Olivier
Dolls, Mathias
Neumann, Dirk
Peichl, Andreas
Siegloch, Sebastian
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- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:23 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Akay, Alpaslan
- Bargain, Olivier
- Dolls, Mathias
- Neumann, Dirk
- Peichl, Andreas
- Siegloch, Sebastian
- Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
Entstanden
- 2012