| Publication | |
| Author(s) | Akay, A. |
| Title | Happy Taxpayers? Income Taxation and Well-Being. |
| Source | Discussion Paper, 2012, Nr. 6999, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/67179 |
| Investigation | |
| Public | 16-65 aged, taxpayers, Germany, 1985-2010 |
| Last assesment | 2010 |
| Survey name | DE-SOEP |
| 26 merged waves 1985-2010 | |
| Sample | Probability stratified sample |
| Weighting | N |
| Respondents N = | 188412 |
| 25.000 individuals in 10.000 households. 270.000 individual-year observations, of which 188.412 taxpayers (base-line sample) | |
| Non Response | Not available |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Selfreport on single question: Taking all things together, how satisfied are you with your life these days? Please answer with the help of this scale. For instance, when you are totally satisfied with your life, please tick '10'. When you are totally unsatisfied with your life, please tick '0'. You may use all values in between to indicate that you are neither totally satisfied nor totally unsatisfied." 10 totally satisfied 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 totally unsatisfied |
| Classification | O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-d |
| Author's label | Life satrisfaction |
| Page in publication | 6 |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 0 - 10 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 7.09 | |
| Standard deviation | 1.70 |
| Author's label | Subject Code Finding | Subject description |
| Age squared | A04ab | Current age (in years) |
| Disposable income | I01ab03b | disposable income |
| Net income (log) | I01ab01 | Personal income |
| Taxes (log) | C10ab03n | Tax |
| Working hours (log) | E02ad02 | Hours work |