Framing and taxation: Evaluation of tax policies involving household composition

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 679-705

  McCaffery, Edward J ^a   Baron, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Framing; Heuristics and biases; Taxation

Indexed keywords

EID: 11044231788     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2003.07.001     Document Type: Article

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