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Bequests as Signals : An Explanation for the Equal Division Puzzle

Bernheim, B. Douglas - 2000

In the United States, more than two-thirds of decedents with multichild families divide their estates exactly equally among their children. In contrast, intra vivos gifts are usually unequal. These findings challenge the validity of existing theories regarding the determination of...

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Testing Parental Altruism : Implications of a Dynamic Model

McGarry, Kathleen - 2000

Each year parents transfer a great deal of money to their adult children. While intuition might suggest that these transfers are altruistic and made out of concern for the well-being of the children, the fundamental prediction of the altruistic model has been decisively rejected in empirical...

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Forward and Backward Intergenerational Goods : A Theory of Intergenerational Exchange

Rangel, Antonio - 2000

-dynastic altruism. The main building blocks of the theory are forward and backward intergenerational goods (FIGs and BIGs) and the …

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The ABCs of Charitable Solicitation

Meer, Jonathan - 2009

A substantial experimental literature suggests that a personal solicitation is an effective way to induce people to make charitable donations. We examine whether this result generalizes to a non-experimental setting. Specifically, we estimate the effect of a marginal personal solicitation using...

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Why Parents Play Favorites : Explanations for Unequal Bequests

Light, Audrey - 2003

empirical work testing the seemingly appealing models of altruism and exchange has led to decidedly mixed results. A major … question that directly asks mother about the planned division of their estates. We find that both altruism and exchange are …

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The Effects of Income and Wealth on Time and Money Transfers between Parents and Children

Altonji, Joseph G. - 1996

We use the 1988 PSID to study the effects of income and wealth on transfers of money and time between individuals and their parents as well as the effects of incomes of other relatives on these flows. We relate the relative incomes of parents and parents in-law to transfer amounts given and...

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Parental Altruism and Inter Vivos Transfers : Theory and Evidence

Altonji, Joseph G. - 1995

motivated by altruism. Specifically, the paper tests whether an increase by one dollar in the income of parents actively making … standard altruism model augmented to include uncertain and liquidity constraints. These additional elements pin down the timing … heterogeneity across families in the degree of altruism. The findings strongly reject the altruism hypothesis. Redistributing one …

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Dynamic Efficiency in the Gifts Economy

O'Connell, Stephen A. - 1993

In the standard analysis of an overlapping generations economy with gifts from children to parents, each generation takes the actions of all other generations as given. The resulting "simultaneous moves" equilibrium is dynamically inefficient. In reality, however, parents precede children in...

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Making Bequests Without Spoiling Children : Bequests as an Implicit Optimal Tax Structure and the Possibility That Altruistic Bequests are not Equaliz

Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 1988

This paper examines the bequest\gift behavior of altruistic parents who do not know their children's abilities and cannot observe their children's work effort. Parents are likely to respond to this information problem by making larger bequests to higher earning children and by using their...

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A Framework for Assessing Estate and Gift Taxation

Kaplow, Louis - 2000

Whether and how estates and gifts should be taxed has long been a controversial subject, and the approach to estate and gift taxation varies among developed countries. Arguments for and against various forms of transfer taxation have focused on concerns about the distribution of income and...

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