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State "Death" Taxes and Elderly Migration—The Chicken or the Egg?

Conway, Karen Smith, Rork, Jonathan C.·2006·National Tax Journal
DOI 10.17310/ntj.2006.1.05
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Researchers and practitioners hypothesize that the elderly may move to avoid paying "death" (estate, inheritance and gift, or EIG) taxes. Past research on elderly migration, however, has been based on cross-sectional data. Cross-sectional analyses may be misleading as many states that are historical net-importers of the elderly were also among the first to reduce or eliminate their EIG taxes. Using time variability in migration patterns and EIG tax policies and using the young as a "control" group eliminates any evidence that EIG policies affect elderly migration. Rather, we provide evidence that the causality may instead run in the other direction.

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  4. Specifically, 1980, the 1970 census migration information is based on a 15 percent sample
  5. The, 1962, The $100,000-499,999 range in 2000 translates into $21,569-107,845
  6. Because, thus, we have less concern about endogeneity, we report the results defining elderly migration as a percent of the elderly population
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  11. Several, 1970, The 1980 results strongly suggest that high EIG taxes discourage elderly migration, whereas the 1990 results suggest little impact. This trend holds more generally
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  13. Standard, 1980, State and year fixed effects included
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Authors
Conway, K. S., & Rork, J. C.
ORCID
Venue
National Tax Journal
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Published
2006-03-01
Volume
59
Issue
1
Pages
97-128
ISSN
  • 0028-0283 (ISSN-L)
  • 1944-7477
DOI
10.17310/ntj.2006.1.05
OpenAlex
W2252943167
Cited by
72
References
0
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FWCI
8.52
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • National Tax Journal (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economic and Fiscal Studies
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Finance › Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
Keywords
elderly migration, estate tax, inheritance tax, gift tax, state tax policy, tax avoidance, reverse causality

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