Search Results - subject:"Inheritance"

Women's inheritance rights and time use: Evidence from the Hindu Succession Act in India

Gupta, Tanu - 2022

Act was amended between 1976 and 2005 by giving equal inheritance rights to women for inheriting property. To estimate the … effect of the equal inheritance reform, I devise a difference-in-difference strategy by exploiting the features of the reform … that inheritance reform could be a form of reversal of the devaluing of women's domestic and reproductive labour. …

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Inherited inequality and the dilemma of meritocracy

Freyer, Timo; Günther, Laurenz R. K. - 2022

A defining feature of meritocratic societies is that resource distributions reflect individual effort levels. However, this introduces a dilemma in a world where parents care for their children. If one pair of parents works harder than a second pair of parents, the first pair has merited the...

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Legislative provisions for waṣiyyah wājibah in Malaysia and Indonesia: To what extent do they differ in practice?

In: ISRA International Journal of Islamic Finance 14 (2022) 2, pp. 157-174

country, especially when addressing family members who are not entitled to succeed by farāʾiḍ (Islamic inheritance law …

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Choosing or Inheriting the Joneses : The Origins of Reference Groups

Leites, Martín; Paleo, Camila; Ramos Morilla, Xavier; … - 2022

Do individuals choose their reference groups, i.e. their Joneses, or are they culturally transmitted across generations? We provide evidence that feeds the theoretical debate about the endogeneity or exogeneity of reference groups. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that reference groups are...

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Unequal Bequests 1

Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - 2022

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more prevalent than generally recognized, with more than one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally...

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Inheritance Taxation Reform Distorts Rental Housing Market : Evidence from Japan

Mikawa, Naoto; Yasuda, Shohei; Yukutake, Norifumi - 2022

The inheritance taxation reform of 2015 in Japan substantially increased the amount of tax levied on large inheritances … effect of inheritance tax reform on housing rents. Using the difference-in-differences method, we reveal that the housing …

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Luck or Rights? An Experiment on Preferences for Redistribution Following Inheritance of Opportunity

Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Riyanto, … - 2022

We experimentally investigate whether people generally perceive inheritance as effort-induced or luck-induced. By … suggest that people would feel entitled to bequests and inheritance unless the randomness of inheritance has been made salient …

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The (Un)Importance of Inheritance

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Landaud, Fanny; … - 2022

inheritances have very little effect on the distribution of Total Inflows, suggesting that inheritance taxes may do little to …

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Opportunity and inequality across generations

Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2022

We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....

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The Wealth Decumulation Behavior of the Retired Elderly in Italy : The Importance of Bequest Motives and Precautionary Saving

Ventura, Luigi; Horioka, Charles - 2022

In this paper, we analyze the wealth accumulation and saving behavior of the retired elderly in Italy using micro data from the “Survey of Italian Households’ Income and Wealth,” a panel survey of households conducted every two years by the Bank of Italy. We find that, on average, the...

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