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 …

much different from the actual distribution. Our findings suggest that inheritance taxes may do little to mitigate the …

We propose a theory of indebted demand, capturing the idea that large debt burdens by households and governments lower … aggregate demand, and thus natural interest rates. At the core of the theory is the simple yet under-appreciated observation …