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 transfers implicitly either to tax at the margin low earning children or …

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 transfers implicitly either to tax at the margin low earning children or …

This Article examines how more than 50% of children living today may be disadvantaged by 1950s era inheritance laws … that privilege and protect only those children living in nuclear families with their biological parents. Because so many … children today are living in blended families — single-parent families, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer …