Popular support for progressive taxation and the relative income hypothesis

Economics Letters

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 69-76

  Mitra, Tapan ^a   Ok, Efe A ^b   Koçkesen, Levent ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

D72; Interdependent preferences; Progressive income taxation; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032219582     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(97)00260-7     Document Type: Article

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