Filmmaker Bahram Sadeghi made a six-episode minimovie documentary about Ig Nobel Prize winners. We are showcasing one episode a day here. (If you can’t wait to see the others, watch the entire set in hi-def at the minimovie.org web site.)
Episode 2: In 2001, Joel 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.