Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2012
' 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 … several possible channels through which taxes affect welfare including public goods, insurance, redistributive taste and tax …