[eng] Bequest and Inheritance from French Fiscal Data, . by Luc Arrondel, Anne Laferrère.. . In this paper, a sample of 3200 estate duty forms filed in 1987 is used for a basis in describing the behaviour of the French regarding bequests and devises. It showed an estimated overall transfer...

Wealth is highly concentrated among a few very rich individuals. The usual models of wealth transmission offer life-cycle and family motives for bequests. The hypothesis here is that those motives are not likely to be active for very rich individuals. Using a sample of french estate records...

We describe some of the mechanisms underlying the occupation of social housing, in order to understand what has been called the pauperization of the French social housing sector over the last 20 years. We also suggest a filtering model that, jointly to full tenant protection and disconnection...

We use retrospective life-history data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to assess parental altruism through the effect of parental resources and home characteristics on the age at which individuals now aged 50 or more left the nest in 13 countries. We show that the nest...

[eng] Inheritance and Gift Taxes: Bases for International Comparisons, . by Anne Laferrère.. . There is a wide range of ways countries handle the transmission of wealth from one generation to the next. The very concept of property can differ as do the rules governing matrimony, children's...