No country for Old Men (Or Women) -do state tax policies drive away the elderly?

National Tax Journal

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 313-356

  Conway, Karen Smith ^a   Rork, Jonathan C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b REED COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly interstate migration; Personal income taxation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881004093     PISSN: 00280283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2012.2.03     Document Type: Article

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