The Effect of Inheritance and Gifts on Household Net Wealth Distribution Analysed by Applying the Shapley Value … Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey 2014. Disparity in inheritance and gifts obtained by households are found to …

We estimate the size of inheritance flows in Switzerland over a long span of data, in close analogy to the study for … France by Piketty (Q J Econ 126(3):1071-1131, 2011). We find that inheritance flows had been growing more slowly than … flow of inheritance amounted to 13.2% of national income in 2011. The share of total wealth that is attributable to …

affected by inheritance distribution. The relative attraction derived from inherited wealth and acquired human capital in …, covering both labor income and inheritance. This paper studies the concentration and substitutability of these two traits in … outcomes seen in France. By assuming a sequential revelation of inheritance and labor income in marital sorting, we develop a …

This Article explores the inheritance rights of individuals situated at the fringes of marital relationships …

maximize the social welfare that is generated by the inheritance process, it regulates inheritance in some circumstances … distributing property in particular ways. Scholars have catalogued the various ways that the law regulates inheritance; however … they typically have examined them in isolation without developing an overarching framework for analyzing inheritance …