Search Results - subject:"Inheritance"

Is It What You Inherited or What You Learnt? Intergenerational Linkage and Interpersonal Inequality in Senegal

Lambert, Sylvie; Ravallion, Martin; Van de Walle, Dominique - 2012

include an individualized measure of consumption, this paper studies the role played by land inheritance, other bequests and … activity. Inheritance of non-land assets and the education and occupation of parents (especially the mother) and their choices … about children's schooling are more important to adult welfare than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in …

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How Important Are Perpetual Tax Savings?

Hines, James R, Jr - 2012

Federal estate taxes give very wealthy families incentives to transfer resources directly to distant generations in order to avoid taxes on successive rounds of transfers. Until recently such transfers were impeded by the rule against perpetuities, which prevented transfers to most potential...

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Have the Poor Always Been Less Likely to Migrate? Evidence From Inheritance Practices During the Age of Mass Migration

Abramitzky, Ran - 2012

do so by exploiting variation in parental wealth and in expected inheritance by birth order, gender composition of …

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Why Do Life Insurance Policyholders Lapse? The Roles of Income, Health and Bequest Motive Shocks

Fang, Hanming - 2012

Previous research has shown that the reasons for lapsation have important implications regarding the effects of the emerging life settlement market on consumer welfare. We present and empirically implement a dynamic discrete choice model of life insurance decisions to assess the importance of...

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Legal Issues of Maternity and Inheritance for the Biotech Child of the 21st Century

Knaplund, Kristine S. - 2012

issues of parentage and inheritance. This Article examines the various reasons people use assisted reproductive technologies …

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Charitable Bequests and Wealth at Death

Atkinson, Anthony B. - 2012

Charitable bequests are a major source of income for charities but surprisingly little is known about them. The aim of this paper is to propose a multi-stage framework for analysing the bequest decision and to examine the evidence for Great Britain provided by new data on estates. The novelty of...

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Inheritance Legal Systems and the Intergenerational Bond

Kreiczer-Levy, Shelly - 2012

This article offers an analysis of three legal systems of inheritance: American law, common law family provision, and … civil law. It offers a unique reading of these systems by focusing on the role of continuity in inheritance and by stressing …

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Did the Death of Australian Inheritance Taxes Affect Deaths?

Gans, Joshua; Leigh, Andrew - 2012

In 1979, Australia abolished federal inheritance taxes. Using daily deaths data, we show that approximately 50 deaths … eligible to pay the tax). Our findings suggest that the scheduled abolition of the US inheritance tax may lead some deaths to …

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The Economics of Consanguineous Marriages

Đỗ-Quý-Toàn; Iyer, Sriya; Joshi, Shareen - 2012

The institution of consanguineous marriage-a marriage contracted between close biological relatives-has been a basic building block of many societies in different parts of the world. This paper argues that the practice of consanguinity is closely related to the practice of dowry, and that both...

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Wichtige Bausteine der erfolgreichen Nachfolgeplanung für Familienvermögen und -gesellschaften

Feick, Martin; Scherer, Stephan - In: Management komplexer Familienvermögen : Organisation, …, (pp. 181-190). 2008

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