Search Results - subject:"Inheritance"

Wealth Inequality, Family Background, and Estate Taxation

De Nardi, Mariacristina - 2015

empirically relevant forces generating inequality: bequest motives and inheritance of ability across generations; and an earnings …

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How Inheriting Affects Bequest Plans

Stark, Oded - 2015

We present and test the idea that bequest planning is linked with the experience of inheriting. We consider “a family tradition of bequeathing” as a channel through which the intention to bequeath is moulded by and is positively correlated with the experience of inheriting. Using data from...

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Customary norms, inheritance, and human capital : evidence from a reform of the matrilineal system in Ghana

La Ferrara, Eliana; Milazzo, Annamaria - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 9 (2017) 4, pp. 166-185

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Women's inheritance rights, household allocation, and gender bias

Bose, Nayana; Das, Shreyasee - In: The American economic review 107 (2017) 5, pp. 150-153

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How inheriting affects bequest plans

Stark, Oded; Nicinska, Anna - In: Economica 82 (2015), pp. 1126-1152

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Accessing finance among women-owned small businesses: Evidence from lower Manya Krobo municipality, Ghana

Boateng, Simon; Poku, Kwabena Osei - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research 9 (2019) 5, pp. 1-17

, they are being discriminated against women micro-entrepreneurs due to the patrilineal inheritance system of the area. Again …

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Taxes, frictions and asset shifting - when Swedes disinherited themselves

Escobar, Sebastian; Ohlsson, Henry; Selin, Håkan - 2019

recipients. When the Swedish inheritance tax was in place, heirs could lower their inheritance tax bills by passing on part of … the inheritance to their children. We present evidence on strong and precise responses to this incentive. We quantify …

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The fetters of inheritance? Equal partition and regional economic development

Huning, Thilo R.; Wahl, Fabian - 2019

How can agricultural inheritance traditions affect structural change and economic development in rural areas? The most … inheritance traditions to the local allocation of labor and capital and to municipal development. First, we show that among …, we conduct OLS and fuzzy spatial RDD estimates for Baden-Württemberg in the 1950s and today. We find that inheritance …

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On the retirement effect of inheritance: Heterogeneity and the role of risk aversion

Garbinti, Bertrand; Georges-Kot, Simon - 2019

This paper provides new insights on the effect of inheritance receipt on retirement. We build on lifelong information …

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Accounting for racial wealth disparities in the United States

Thompson, Jeffrey P.; Suarez, Gustavo A. - 2019

Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances, this paper updates and extends previous research on the racial wealth gap in the United States. We explore several hypotheses that help explain differential wealth accumulation by racial groups, including the importance of receiving inheritances...

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