Add to ORKGAbstract: The large amount of equal division of bequests by parents who otherwise would have compensated the earning differences among their children is attributed to the cost associated with unequal bequests. This paper identifies a source of this cost and explains why equal bequests to children whose earnings differ, and parental altruism toward these children, are not mutually exclusive.
Economists have invested a great deal of effort in trying to understand the motivation for family tr...
The empirical evidence suggests that parents use inter vivos gifts (i.e., transfers of tangible and ...
We study optimal taxation of bequests and inter vivos transfers in a model where altruistic parents...
Abstract: The intersection of the standard altruism hypothesis with the quite strong evidence that b...
Abstract: Several studies reject the implications of the altruism model. In this study it is argued...
In the United States, more than two-thirds of decedents with multichild families divide their estate...
My dissertation, "Essays in Public Economics," is comprised of three chapters. The first one, titled...
In the United States, more than two-thirds of decedents with multi-child families divide their estat...
That parents transfer resources to children because of altruistic concern is a reasonable a priori a...
Abstract. Simple theories about why parents give money to their children fail to explain a central p...
The author builds on the altruistic model of the family, to explore the strategic interaction betwee...
In this note, we use the theory of incentive contracting to characterize the pattern of financial tr...
This paper studies the design of the tax and regulatory regime applied to bequests. It is based on t...
Recent empirical work on intergenerational transfers has shown that: i) parents prefer to transfer r...
The objective of this essay is to study to what extent parents divide their estates unequally betwee...
Economists have invested a great deal of effort in trying to understand the motivation for family tr...
The empirical evidence suggests that parents use inter vivos gifts (i.e., transfers of tangible and ...
We study optimal taxation of bequests and inter vivos transfers in a model where altruistic parents...
Abstract: The intersection of the standard altruism hypothesis with the quite strong evidence that b...
Abstract: Several studies reject the implications of the altruism model. In this study it is argued...
In the United States, more than two-thirds of decedents with multichild families divide their estate...
My dissertation, "Essays in Public Economics," is comprised of three chapters. The first one, titled...
In the United States, more than two-thirds of decedents with multi-child families divide their estat...
That parents transfer resources to children because of altruistic concern is a reasonable a priori a...
Abstract. Simple theories about why parents give money to their children fail to explain a central p...
The author builds on the altruistic model of the family, to explore the strategic interaction betwee...
In this note, we use the theory of incentive contracting to characterize the pattern of financial tr...
This paper studies the design of the tax and regulatory regime applied to bequests. It is based on t...
Recent empirical work on intergenerational transfers has shown that: i) parents prefer to transfer r...
The objective of this essay is to study to what extent parents divide their estates unequally betwee...
Economists have invested a great deal of effort in trying to understand the motivation for family tr...
The empirical evidence suggests that parents use inter vivos gifts (i.e., transfers of tangible and ...
We study optimal taxation of bequests and inter vivos transfers in a model where altruistic parents...