, together with Pareto efficiency and a separability principle. Second, the paper studies the shape of the inheritance tax scheme … that maximizes this social welfare function. It shows that in the aggregate, the inheritance tax must collect money …

most startling characteristic of Chinese inheritance law is its willingness to invoke judicial review of an heir’s conduct …

's discretion to decide which testamentary gifts to accept or to reject can be labeled “freedom of inheritance.”Although legal … maximizing social welfare, relatively little attention has been paid to the donee's freedom of inheritance and the role it plays …'s freedom of inheritance and identifies how it works in concert with the donor's freedom of disposition to maximize social …

A couple delegates a person, D, to divide a cake (their inheritance) of unit length among their children, players A and …

We investigate whether legislation of equal inheritance rights for women modifies the historic preference for sons in … increased excess female infant mortality and son-biased fertility stopping. This suggests that the inheritance reform raised the …