Altonji, Joseph G.; Villanueva, Ernesto - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003
We examine how much of an extra dollar of parental lifetime resources will ultimately be passed on to adult children in the form of inter vivos transfers and bequests. We infer bequests from the stock of wealth late in life. We use mortality rates and age speciļ¬c estimates of the response of...