We study the effect of receiving an inheritance on the labor force participation (LFP) of both the recipient and the … recipient's spouse in a population of older married couples. An inheritance is not subject to laws governing division of marital … inheritance expectations, we interpret the receipt of an inheritance as a shock to wealth. Our results indicate that receiving an …

to their pre-inheritance wealth. We also find that post-inheritance behavioral adjustments mitigate the equalizing effect … Swedish inheritance tax reduced the equalizing inheritance effect but that the redistribution of tax revenues could reverse …

This letter provides new evidence on the extent of the inheritance of educational inequality in the eight developing …

We experimentally investigate whether people generally perceive inheritance as effort-induced or luck-induced. By … suggest that people would feel entitled to bequests and inheritance unless the randomness of inheritance has been made salient …

inheritances have very little effect on the distribution of Total Inflows, suggesting that inheritance taxes may do little to …

with the inheritance of employers that have different intergenerational earnings elasticities. The model also demonstrates … that the inheritance of employers plays a role in understanding observed nonlinearities …