Do bequests increase or decrease wealth inequalities?

Charles Yuji Horioka

This paper finds that individuals in Japan do not leave very significant bequests, that parents often require a quid pro quo for bequests to their children, and that wealthier individuals leave less bequests, meaning that bequests ameliorate wealth inequalities. -- Bequests ; Inheritances ; Intergenerational transfers ; Wealth inequalities ; Life cycle wealth

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Horioka, Charles
Publisher:	Osaka : Inst. of Social and Economic Research
Subject:	Erbe \| Inheritance \| Vermögensverteilung \| Wealth distribution \| Soziale Ungleichheit \| Social inequality \| Generationengerechtigkeit \| Intergenerational equity \| Japan \| 2006

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (7 S., 59.74 Kb)
Series:	Discussion paper / Institute of Social and Economic Research. - Osaka : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ISSN 2435-0982, ZDB-ID 2106942-6. - Vol. 729
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/92856 [Handle]
Classification:	D12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis ; D91 - Intertemporal Consumer Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving ; E21 - Consumption; Saving
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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