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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth

Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective … analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent …

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Inheritance taxation with agents differing in altruism

Belan, Pascal; Moussault, Erwan - In: Revue d'économie politique 132 (2022) 5, pp. 793-833

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Generosity across the income and wealth distributions

Meer, Jonathan; Priday, Benjamin A. - In: National tax journal 74 (2021) 3, pp. 655-687

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Helping others, helping myself : collegiate experiences and graduates’ altruistic and wealth aspirations

Routon, P. Wesley; Walker, Jay K. - In: Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly 46 (2017) 3, pp. 627-651

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Heterogeneous bequests and social inequalities

Borissov, Kirill; Bosi, Stefano; Thai Ha Huy; Pakhnin, … - 2023

We study a growth model with two types of agents who are heterogeneous in their degree of family altruism. We prove that every equilibrium path converges to a unique steady state, and study the effect of altruism on the properties of steady-state equilibrium. We show that aggregate income is...

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Bequests

Horioka, Charles - 2025

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Bequests

Horioka, Charles - 2025

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The social preferences of democratically elected decision makers and the conflict between wealth generation and distribution

Gaudeul, Alexia; Keser, Claudia - 2017

-oriented, but also more altruistic, than leaders who are selected at random or by ability. Because wealth generation and …

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Chapter 24 Selfishness, altruism and normative principles in the economic analysis of social transfers

Blanchet, Didier; Fleurbaey, Marc - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1465-1503). 2006

This chapter examines the role of altruistic motives in the economic analysis of public social transfers, both from a positive and from a normative point of view. The positive question is to know whether we can fully neglect altruistic considerations to explain the development or sustainability...

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Chapter 16 Wealth transfer taxation: a survey of the theoretical literature

Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1107-1134). 2006

The purpose of this paper is to survey the theoretical literature on wealth transfer taxation. The focus is normative …

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