Dying for Taxes - Minimovies: Ig Nobel Prizes (Ep. 2/6)

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Ig Nobel Prizes
First Laugh, Then Think!

Episode 2: Dying for taxes

In 2001, Joe Slemrod & Wojciech Kopczuk won the Ig Nobel Prize in the field of Economics with their morbid paper "Dying to save taxes". Their conclusion was that people find a way to postpone their deaths if that would qualify them for a lower rate on the inheritance tax.

Ig Nobel Prizes are the not-so-well-known alternative of the famous Nobel Prizes. Each year since 1989, ten scientists receive prizes for "research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK". Watch six scientists and their studies about the most important subjects of our daily life: having sex, food, money, death, and having sex again.

Director

Mr. Bahram Sadeghi (1967, Iran) works since 1998 as a director and host for public TV stations in The Netherlands. In addition he is a freelance writer for various national newspapers and weeklies. Mr Sadeghi has no hobbies.

Camera & Sound: Bahram Sadeghi
Editor: Dikla Zeidler, Sander Cijsouw

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Category:

Science & Technology

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• Ig Nobel Prizes
• Minimovies
• Submarine Channel
• Dying for taxes
• Bahram Sadeghi
• Joe Slemrod
• Wojciech Kopczuk
• Save Taxes
• Postpone Death
• Inheritance Tax
• Experiment

[arkv2]

Hilarious! Seriously. For some reason it all seems so obvious, still...

[appledecca]

I found this very funny - Thank You.