Dying to save taxes: Evidence from estate-tax returns on the death elasticity

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 256-265

  Kopczuk, Wojciech ^a   Slemrod, Joel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NONE

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EID: 0038692178     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/003465303765299783     Document Type: Article

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