We study how attitudes to inheritance taxation are influenced by information about the role of inherited wealth in … inheritance taxation. The effect is almost uniform across socio-economic groups and survives a battery of robustness tests … inherited wealth could be one explanation behind the relatively marginalized role of inheritance taxation in developed economies …

inheritance within a decade while the inheritances of wealthy heirs remain intact. These different depletion rates are not due to … in inequality could be due to either a com-pressed inheritance distribution or similar chances of having wealthy parents … in inherited wealth over time. This implies that inheritance taxation can reduce long-run wealth inequality only through …

This paper studies the design of an optimal non linear inheritance taxation when individuals differ in wage as well as …

The desirability of inheritance and gift taxes depends on individuals’ tax responsiveness. This paper demonstrates how … strongly, and in what way, the German inheritance and gift tax influences taxpayer behavior. To that end, it combines …

implications. We test the predictions of our theory employing a unique policy shock: the abolition of bequest and donation taxation …

with only intended bequests, by enhancing incentives of parents to invest in their children's education. This result holds …