Germany, Italy, the UK, Denmark, the US, and Taiwan. We divide household including elderly into five types: living alone …

In many Sub-Saharan African societies, inheritance is one of the most common means by which physical property is … (IGT poverty) would do well to attend to how inheritance systems are governed, and particularly which considerations affect … policy that address issues of inheritance and IGT poverty. It is organised into three main sections: the first outlines what …

of wealth can be transferred intergenerationally by a multitude of actors, this paper is more narrowly focused on … transfers of human and physical capital (assets), forms of wealth for which we have more empirical evidence. Section 2 consists … of a conceptual framework that examines how families transfer wealth to children, and how the poor may face barriers to …

theoretical scholarship and policy analysis concerning the de jure and de facto rules and norms of inheritance practices in … key questions, methods and findings of investigations concerning inheritance and poverty in African societies; and 2) an … bibliography present recent scholarship which has contributed to the case for investigating the links between inheritance systems …

do so by exploiting variation in parental wealth and in expected inheritance by birth order, gender composition of …Using novel data on 50,000 Norwegian men, we study the effect of wealth on the probability of internal or international … siblings, and region. We find that wealth discouraged migration in this era, suggesting that the poor could be more likely to …

do so by exploiting variation in parental wealth and in expected inheritance by birth order, gender composition of …Using novel data on 50,000 Norwegian men, we study the effect of wealth on the probability of internal or international … siblings, and region. We find that wealth discouraged migration in this era, suggesting that the poor could be more likely to …