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Intergenerational transfers and wealth in the Euro-area : the relevance of inheritances and gifts in absolute and relative terms
Tiefensee, Anita; Westermeier, Christian - 2016
Private wealth is a crucial factor for the economic well-being of households. Key determinants of private wealth include intergenerational wealth transfers (gifts and inheritances), which are gaining importance since 1990, as research suggests. We conduct a detailed investigation of the...
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Intergenerational transfers : how do they shape the German wealth distribution?
Werder, Marten von - 2018
This paper uses SOEP data to study the distributional effect of intergenerational transfers on the wealth distribution of German households. Similar to most other central European countries, Germany is likely to face a period of increasing aggregate bequest flows. At the same time, there is an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011915902
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The effect of self-control on borrowing : experimental evidence
Grohmann, Antonia; Hamdan, Jana S. - 2020
This paper examines the effect of reduced self-control on debt-taking in a laboratory experiment. We manipulate self-control using an ego depletion task and show that it is effective. Following the ego depletion task, participants can anonymously buy hot drinks on credit. We find no significant...
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Intergenerational mobility and the informative content of surnames
Güell, Maia (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003505284
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Family background and the responses to higher SAT scores
Graetz, Georg; Öckert, Björn; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486463
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Love and money with inheritance : marital sorting by labor income and inherited wealth in the modern partnership
Pasteau, Etienne; Zhu, Junyi - 2018
affected by inheritance distribution. The relative attraction derived from inherited wealth and acquired human capital in …, covering both labor income and inheritance. This paper studies the concentration and substitutability of these two traits in … outcomes seen in France. By assuming a sequential revelation of inheritance and labor income in marital sorting, we develop a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874278
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How inheritances shape wealth distributions : an international comparison
Bönke, Timm; Werder, Marten von; Westermeier, Christian - 2016
We use data from the European Household Finance and Consumption Survey in order to examine the distributional effect of intergenerational wealth transfers on the net worth distribution in 8 European countries and compare it to recent findings for the US. To do so, we resort to the decomposition...
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Altruism and self-refrain
De la Croix, David; Michel, Philippe - 1998
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Terror as a bargaining instrument : a case-study of dowry violence in rural India
Bloch, Francis; Rao, Vijayendra - 1999
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Mental accounting and the marginal propensity to consume
Bernard, René - 2023
. The results are broadly in line with mental accounting theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014320569