Equal bequests and parental altruism: Compatibility or orthogonality?

The large amount of equal division of bequests by parents who otherwise would have compensated the earning differences among their children is attributed to the cost associated with unequal bequests. This paper identifies a source of this cost and explains why equal bequests to children whose earnings differ, and parental altruism toward these children, are not mutually exclusive.

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Year of publication:	1998
Authors:	Stark, Oded
Publisher:	Vienna : Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS)
Subject:	parental altruism \| equal bequests

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Series:	Reihe Ökonomie / Economics Series ; 54
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	735610754 [GVK] hdl:10419/70105 [Handle] RePEc:ihs:ihsesp:54 [RePEc]
Classification:	D10 - Household Behavior and Family Economics. General ; D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; D64 - Altruism
Source:	EconStor

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