inheritance expropriation by their extended family. According to traditional Islamic inheritance principles, only the son of a … deceased man can exclude his male agnates from inheritance and preserve his estate within the nuclear household. The paper … exploits cross-sectional and time variation in the application of the Islamic inheritance exclusion rule in Indonesia: between …

This paper examines whether and to what extent amendments in inheritance legislation impact women's physical and human … capital investments, using disaggregated household level data from India. The authors use inheritance patterns over three …

The need to write this book has arisen in connection with author's recent conviction that a common European inheritance … law in any form (in particular within the European Union) would be highly desirable. Undoubtedly, inheritance law today … possible harmonization of inheritance law in Europe have come into existence …

This paper reviews Hartog’s 2012 book, Someday All this will be Yours: A History of Inheritance and Old Age. Relying on …

-experimental variation generated by reforms of bequest taxation (estate or inheritance tax, in the U.S.) and taxes on inter vivos real estate …