inheritance law is concerned with establishing a parent-child relationship in order to determine one's eligibility to inherit. The … 1970s saw several United States Supreme Court cases address the issue of state inheritance statutes that imposed a higher … burden on nonmarital children in establishing a parent-child relationship for purposes of inheritance. Some of these state …

We estimate the size of inheritance and gift flows in Germany for selected years over the last century, applying the … Socio-Economic Panel, SOEP). The data clearly supports the finding of a U-shaped evolution. The annual flow of inheritance … pure household survey data or inheritance tax statistics yields much lower values. We can decompose the gap between the …

inheritance and the other of those who do. The first tagged group gets a second-best tax à la Mirrlees; the second group a first …-best tax schedule. The solution implies that receiving an inheritance makes high-ability types worse off and low-ability types …

We estimate the size of inheritance and gift flows in Germany for selected years over the last century, applying the … Socio-Economic Panel, SOEP). The data clearly supports the finding of a U-shaped evolution. The annual flow of inheritance … pure household survey data or inheritance tax statistics yields much lower values. We can decompose the gap between the …

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 …