philanthropy and the use of wealth hold true in other national settings when compared to previous literature on "major donors …." Some results may be more specific to French society, whose relation to money and wealth and to private initiatives for the … promote, strengthen and drive philanthropy among the wealthy in France. …

Understanding the drivers of wealth transfers during life is crucial to understanding the intergenerational … on this, we analyse the relationships between giving and receiving significant wealth transfers and experiencing key life … events. We use newly-available data from the UK Wealth and Assets Survey to investigate recipients’ self-reported transfer …

-cycle model as well as saving motives that are consistent with the altruism model are important in Europe implies that the two … suggests that this model is far more applicable in Europe than is the altruism model. Moreover, our finding that the … intergenerational transfers motive, which is the saving motive that most exemplifies the altruism model, accounts for only about one …