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  1. Hesiod's Ascra
    Author: Edwards, Anthony T.
    Published: [2004]; ©2005
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    In Works and Days, one of the two long poems that have come down to us from Hesiod, the poet writes of farming, morality, and what seems to be a very nasty quarrel with his brother Perses over their inheritance. In this book, Anthony T. Edwards... more

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    In Works and Days, one of the two long poems that have come down to us from Hesiod, the poet writes of farming, morality, and what seems to be a very nasty quarrel with his brother Perses over their inheritance. In this book, Anthony T. Edwards extracts from the poem a picture of the social structure of Ascra, the hamlet in northern Greece where Hesiod lived, most likely during the seventh century b.c.e. Drawing on the evidence of trade, food storage, reciprocity, and the agricultural regime as Hesiod describes them in Works and Days, Edwards reveals Ascra as an autonomous village, outside the control of a polis, less stratified and integrated internally than what we observe even in Homer. In light of this reading, theconflict between Hesiod and Perses emerges as a dispute about the inviolability of the community's external boundary and the degree of interobligation among those within the village. Hesiod's Ascra directly counters the accepted view of Works and Days, which has Hesiod describing a peasant society subordinated to the economic and political control of an outside elite. Through his deft analysis, Edwards suggests a new understanding of both Works and Days and the social and economic organization of Hesiod's time and place

     
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  2. Architektur als Unglück
    Wie die Vergangenheit unsere Zukunft verbaut
    Author: Gabriel, Rainer
    Published: 2025
    Publisher:  Verlag Barbara Budrich, Leverkusen

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    ISBN: 9783847431145; 3847431145
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    Series: Schriftenreihe der Forschungsgruppe TRACE
    Other subjects: (Produktform)Paperback / softback; (Zielgruppe)Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft; (Zielgruppe)Fachhochschul-/Hochschulausbildung; (Zielgruppe)Gesellschaft; Architecture; Architektur; evolution; Evolution; Phänotyp, Design; phenotype; design; Vererbung; inheritance; Kultur; culture; Rhetorik; Orientierung; rhetoric; guidance; (VLB-WN)1720: Hardcover, Softcover / Soziologie
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  3. Does the inheritance and gift tax reduce wealth inequality?
    it depends
    Author: López Laborda, Julio
    Published: julio de 2024
    Publisher:  [FEDEA], [Madrid]

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    Series: Documento de trabajo / Fedea ; 2024, 06
    Subjects: Inequality; wealth; inheritance; Inheritance and Gift Tax
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  4. The crucial role of social welfare criteria for optimal inheritance taxation
    Author: García-Miralles, Esteban
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Banco de España, Madrid

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    Series: Documentos de trabajo / Banco de España, Eurosistema ; no. 1706
    Subjects: optimal taxation; inheritance; social welfare criteria
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  5. ''Non-competing social groups''?
    the long debate on social mobility in Italy (c. 1890-1960)
    Author: Gabbuti, Giacomo
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  LEM, Laboratory of Economics and Management, Institute of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy

    In the light of the recent literature on the intellectual history of inequality, this paper offers the first survey and a tentative classification of the Italian literature addressing issues related to social mobility, from late-19th century to the... more

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    In the light of the recent literature on the intellectual history of inequality, this paper offers the first survey and a tentative classification of the Italian literature addressing issues related to social mobility, from late-19th century to the 'Economic Miracle' of the 1950s. During these decades, the foremost Italian economists and statisticians (among others, Pareto, Gini, Einaudi and Pantaleoni) worked on issues, from the role of inheritance to the intergenerational transmission of status, which are very related to the modern understanding of social mobility. While reflecting the evolution and debates in Italian society, these authors participated to a broader international debate, that should lead us to reconsider the lack of interest for inequality by economists in this period.

     
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    Edition: This draft: October 16th, 2022
    Series: LEM working paper series ; 2022, 32 (October 2022)
    Subjects: Social mobility; equality of opportunity; inheritance; Italian economic thought
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  6. Accounting for racial wealth disparities in the United States
    Author: Thompson, Jeffrey P.; Suárez, Gustavo A.
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, [Boston, MA]

    Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances, this paper updates and extends previous research on the racial wealth gap in the United States. We explore several hypotheses that help explain differential wealth accumulation by racial groups,... more

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    Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances, this paper updates and extends previous research on the racial wealth gap in the United States. We explore several hypotheses that help explain differential wealth accumulation by racial groups, including the importance of receiving inheritances and other financial support from relatives and the conditions in local real estate markets. By exploring the disparities among white, black, and Hispanic families, we make new contributions to the literature. We find that observable factors account for the entire wealth gap between white and Hispanic families and most of the gap between white and black families. Differences in human capital, demographics, and family financial support each make substantial contributions to the wealth gaps we observe between white and nonwhite families. Yet a substantial portion of the wealth gap between white and black families remains unaccounted for after a detailed decomposition. This unexplained portion is greater at the top of the wealth distribution.

     
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    Series: Working papers / Federal Reserve Bank of Boston ; no. 19, 13
    Subjects: racial wealth gap; inequality; inheritance; savings
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  7. Intergenerational transfers by size and wealth inequality in rich countries
    Author: Nolan, Brian; Palomino, Juan; Van Kerm, Philippe; Morelli, Salvatore
    Published: September 2020
    Publisher:  CSEF, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance, Department of Economics, University of Naples, Naples, Italy

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    Series: Working paper / CSEF, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance, University of Naples ; no. 578
    Subjects: Wealth; inheritance; inequality; intergenerational transmission
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  8. Religion and tradition in conflict
    experimentally testing the power of social norms to invalidate religious law
    Author: Engel, Christoph; Heine, Klaus; Naseer, Shaheen
    Published: May 2021
    Publisher:  Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn

    Often, religion, law and tradition co-evolve. Religious precepts shape social practice, which translates into law. Yet this harmony is not universal. The Sharia guarantees daughters their share in the family estate. Yet in Pakistan, this rule clashes... more

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    Often, religion, law and tradition co-evolve. Religious precepts shape social practice, which translates into law. Yet this harmony is not universal. The Sharia guarantees daughters their share in the family estate. Yet in Pakistan, this rule clashes with tradition. While the country was jointly governed with (mainly Hindu) India, it had been customary that the entire estate goes to the eldest son. Combining a survey with a lab in the field experiment, we show that this is still the descriptive and the injunctive norm. Yet participants have a strong preference for the conflict to be dissolved by legislative intervention.

     
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    Series: Discussion papers of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods ; 2021, 13
    Subjects: religious norm; legal rule; descriptive and injunctive social norm; inheritance; gender discrimination; Sharia; experiment
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  9. Long-term trends in the distribution of wealth and inheritance
    Author: Davies, James B.; Lluberas, Rodrigo; Waldenström, Daniel
    Published: June 2024
    Publisher:  CESifo, Munich, Germany

    This paper examines long-term trends in aggregate wealth and inheritance and in their distributions, focusing on developed economies. A key stylized fact is that wealth is less equally distributed than income. Financial assets predominate among the... more

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    This paper examines long-term trends in aggregate wealth and inheritance and in their distributions, focusing on developed economies. A key stylized fact is that wealth is less equally distributed than income. Financial assets predominate among the wealthy, while owner-occupied housing is crucial for middle groups, so higher stock prices raise wealth inequality while house price increases do the opposite. Inheritances exacerbate absolute wealth inequality but reduce rel-ative inequality. Wealth inequality declined in advanced Western countries during the first half of the 20th century, then stabilized or rose. Aggregate wealth-to-income ratios have fluctuated, re-flecting both market and policy influences, whereas inherited wealth proportions have declined over the long run. Continued increases in the value of employer-based pensions, housing and social security wealth in recent decades have acted to reduce wealth inequality, offsetting the disequalizing impact of financial asset price increases to a varying extent across countries.

     
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    Series: CESifo working papers ; 11183 (2024)
    Subjects: wealth; inheritance; inequality; saving; history
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  10. Racial wealth disparities
    reconsidering the roles of human capital and inheritance
    Author: Sabelhaus, John; Thompson, Jeffrey P.
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  [Federal Reserve Bank of Boston], [Boston]

    In this paper, we present updated measures of racial disparities in wealth using the most recent data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), augmented by household-level estimates of defined benefit (DB) pension wealth developed by Sabelhaus and... more

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    In this paper, we present updated measures of racial disparities in wealth using the most recent data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), augmented by household-level estimates of defined benefit (DB) pension wealth developed by Sabelhaus and Volz (2020). Including this important asset, we find that racial wealth disparities are smaller than the numbers typically discussed in other research or in the media, but the disparities remain substantial. The paper proceeds by exploring two specific factors that have long been identified as playing potentially important roles in generating disparities in wealth by race, namely differences in earnings (education/human capital) and intergenerational transfers in the form of inheritances and inter vivos gifts. We contribute to the existing literature by introducing several data innovations in the exploration of these factors using the SCF. We augment the SCF data with individual-level lifetime earnings histories (developed by Jacobs et al. 2020, 2021) and enhanced measures of intergenerational transfers (developed by Feiveson and Sabelhaus 2018, 2019). We also create an expanded set of variables that reflect the range of pension coverage and generosity across workers. With all three of these new data components, we use non-parametric decomposition techniques to estimate their contributions to racial wealth gaps between white and non-white families. Differences in lifetime earnings, pension generosity, and a handful of other human capital and work-related variables explain three-quarters of the white/Black wealth gap and 80 to 90 percent of the white/Hispanic gap. Reweighting white family wealth to match the distribution of human capital traits of families of "other" races (including Asian, Native American and other groups) raises counterfactual white wealth to the level of "other" family wealth, nearly closing the white/"other" gap. Differences in intergenerational transfers are found to account for 13 to 16 percent of white/non-white private wealth gaps, although much of the influence of these transfers likely works through the human capital channel. Policies that successfully increase skills, employment, earnings, and pension coverage among low-wealth Black and Hispanic families will make important contributions to closing wealth gaps.

     
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    Edition: This version: September 2021
    Series: Working papers / Federal Reserve Bank of Boston ; no. 22, 3
    Subjects: racial wealth gap; inequality; human capital; lifetime earnings; retirement plans; pensions; inheritance
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  11. Luck or rights?
    an experiment on preferences for redistribution following inheritance of opportunity
    Author: Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Riyanto, Yohanes Eko
    Published: March 2022
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    We experimentally investigate whether people generally perceive inheritance as effort-induced or luck-induced. By randomly matched two strangers in a lab setting, we test whether the sources of opportunity handed down from the 'testator' subjects... more

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    We experimentally investigate whether people generally perceive inheritance as effort-induced or luck-induced. By randomly matched two strangers in a lab setting, we test whether the sources of opportunity handed down from the 'testator' subjects determines later redistributive decisions among the 'heir' subjects. On average, redistribution is highest among the heirs whose chance of winning is determined by the pure luck of the paired testator. In contrast, our subjects treat inherited opportunity generated by effort of someone else who they are artificially linked with as relatively fair. Our results suggest that people would feel entitled to bequests and inheritance unless the randomness of inheritance has been made salient to them.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 15125
    Subjects: inheritance; fairness; redistribution; experiment; inequality of opportunity
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  12. Wealth, inheritance, and concentration
    an "old" new perspective on Italy and its regions from unification to the great war
    Author: Gabbuti, Giacomo; Morelli, Salvatore
    Published: November 2023
    Publisher:  CSEF, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance, Department of Economics, University of Naples, Naples, Italy

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    Series: Working paper / CSEF, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance ; no. 695
    Subjects: inequality; inheritance; wealth; Liberal Italy; Southern Question
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  13. Wealth, inheritance, and concentration
    an "old" new perspective on Italy and its regions from unification to the Great War
    Author: Gabbuti, Giacomo; Morelli, Salvatore
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  LEM, Laboratory of Economics and Management, Institute of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy

    Despite its relevance in 19th-century economics, wealth -its accumulation, composition, and distribution- has largely been neglected in Italian economic history. Filling this gap, we show that between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries, Italy... more

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    Despite its relevance in 19th-century economics, wealth -its accumulation, composition, and distribution- has largely been neglected in Italian economic history. Filling this gap, we show that between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries, Italy presented a historically high value of total private wealth but had relatively small relevance in total bequests flows in proportion to national income. Then, we present novel estimates of wealth concentration between 1863 and 1914, combining national tabulations of inheritance tax records and microdata archives for Milan and Naples. During this period, wealth concentration in Italy was in line with the highest levels ever recorded since the late Middle Ages. Contrary to the evidence of declining income inequality in the period -traditionally considered the industrial 'take-off' phase of Italy- we find no clear signs of trends in wealth concentration or structural changes in wealth composition. This picture is confirmed and enriched by novel findings about wealth concentration at provincial and regional levels in the early 20th century. We show a great deal of heterogeneity beyond national aggregates but find no evidence of the classic North-South divide when looking at concentration. Likewise, we find no clear link between concentration levels and asset composition or economic development. Although contemporary inequality is much lower than early 20th-century figures, the 'real' wealth of present 'millionaires' seems much higher than that of historically rich individuals. Overall, the paper lays the basis for a very long-run view of wealth in Italy and reconsiders the impact of its industrialization at the end of the Liberal period.

     
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    Edition: This draft: November 27, 2023
    Series: LEM working paper series ; 2023, 43 (November 2023)
    Subjects: inequality; inheritance; wealth; Liberal Italy; Southern Question
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  14. Top wealth and its historical origins
    an analysis of Germany's largest privately held fortunes in 2019
    Author: Tisch, Daria; Ischinsky, Emma
    Published: April 2023
    Publisher:  Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany

    Die zunehmende Vermögensungleichheit wird sowohl in aktuellen politischen Debatten als auch in den Sozialwissenschaften diskutiert. Trotz des breiten Interesses an der Vermögenskonzentration wissen wir bislang jedoch nur wenig über die größten... more

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    Die zunehmende Vermögensungleichheit wird sowohl in aktuellen politischen Debatten als auch in den Sozialwissenschaften diskutiert. Trotz des breiten Interesses an der Vermögenskonzentration wissen wir bislang jedoch nur wenig über die größten Privatvermögen. Daher untersuchen wir die historischen Ursprünge der 1.032 größten deutschen Vermögen des Jahres 2019. Wir ermitteln zunächst den Anteil der verwurzelten Vermögen - Vermögen, die auf den Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts zurückgehen - und fragen, inwieweit sie sich von jüngeren Vermögen unterscheiden. Außerdem untersuchen wir explorativ, ob verwurzelte Vermögen durch Familienlinien mit jüngeren Vermögen verbunden sind. Dazu greifen wir auf eine journalistische Reichenliste des manager magazins aus dem Jahr 2019 zurück, die wir sowohl mit Reichenlisten aus den Jahren 1912/1914 als auch mit Wikidata verknüpfen. Wir zeigen, dass etwa acht Prozent der heutigen Vermögen auf Vermögen zurückgehen, die dieselben Familien bereits 1913 besessen haben. Die Regressionsanalysen zeigen, dass verwurzelte Vermögen durchschnittlich höher auf der Reichenliste rangieren als die übrigen Vermögen. Deskriptive Netzwerkanalysen weisen darauf hin, dass einige der größten Vermögen von heute durch Eheschließungen miteinander verbunden sind, was auf eine soziale Schließung an der Spitze der Vermögensverteilung hindeutet. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Akkumulation und die Aufrechterhaltung von Vermögen über Generationen hinweg wichtige Merkmale des deutschen Spitzenvermögens sind. Rising wealth inequality is both a topic in recent policy discussion and in the social sciences. Despite the general interest in wealth concentration, we know only little about the largest privately held fortunes. To help fill this gap we analyze the historical origins of Germany's 1,032 largest fortunes in 2019. In particular, we identify the share of entrenched fortunes - fortunes which date back to the beginning of the twentieth century - and ask to what extent they differ from more recently established ones. Furthermore, we examine in an exploratory way if entrenched fortunes are connected to fortunes with more recent origins through family lines. We use a journalistic rich list published by the manager magazin in 2019, which we link with both rich lists from 1912/1914 and Wikidata. We find that about eight percent of today's fortunes can be traced back to fortunes held by the same families in 1913. Regression analyses show that entrenched fortunes rank on average higher on the rich list than the remaining ones. Descriptive network analyses indicate that some of today's largest fortunes are intertwined through marital lines, hinting at social closure at the top. Our findings indicate that the accumulation and perpetuation of fortunes over many generations is an important feature of top wealth in Germany.

     
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    Series: MPIfG discussion paper ; 23/1
    Subjects: elite; family; inheritance; network analysis; super-rich; wealth perpetuation; Elite; Erbschaft; Familie; Netzwerkanalyse; Reichtum; Vermögen
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  15. Social insurance against a short life
    ante-mortem versus post-mortem policies
    Author: Ponthière, Grégory
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen

    Welfare States do not insure citizens against the risk of premature death, i.e., the risk of having a short life. Using a dynamic OLG model with risky lifetime, this paper compares two insurance devices reducing well-being volatility due to the risk... more

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    Welfare States do not insure citizens against the risk of premature death, i.e., the risk of having a short life. Using a dynamic OLG model with risky lifetime, this paper compares two insurance devices reducing well-being volatility due to the risk of early death: (i) an ante-mortem age-based statistical discrimination policy that consists of an allowance given to all young adults (including the unidentified adults who will die early); (ii) a post-mortem subsidy on accidental bequests due to early death. Each policy is financed by taxing old-age consumption. Whereas each device can yield full insurance, the youth allowance is shown to imply a higher lifetime well-being at the stationary equilibrium. The marginal utility of consumption exceeding the marginal utility of giving when being dead, the youth allowances system is, despite imperfect targeting, a more effi cient mechanism of insurance against the risk of early death.

     
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    Series: GLO discussion paper ; no. 1342
    Subjects: premature death; mortality risk; social insurance; inheritance; lifecycle models
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  16. The keys to the house
    how wealth transfers stratify homeownership opportunities
    Author: Dräger, Jascha; Müller, Nora; Pforr, Klaus
    Published: [2024]
    Publisher:  German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), DIW Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    This study investigates how actual and anticipated intergenerational wealth transfers (i.e., inter-vivo gifts and inheritances) contribute to social stratification in the transition to homeownership. Utilizing discrete-time survival analysis on data... more

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    This study investigates how actual and anticipated intergenerational wealth transfers (i.e., inter-vivo gifts and inheritances) contribute to social stratification in the transition to homeownership. Utilizing discrete-time survival analysis on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (N=13,018), we find that individuals whose parents were manual workers or service workers are less likely to become homeowners. Receiving inheritances or inter-vivo gifts substantially increases the probability of becoming a homeowner, with the effect being most pronounced in the transfer year and diminishing rapidly after that. Anticipated future transfers also increase homeownership probability before transfer receipt. Anticipated and received together transfers explain up to 56% of the variation in homeownership transition rates by parental socio-economic status but the importance of transfers for the transition to homeownership varies strongly across class contrasts. Ignoring expected transfers leads to a significant underestimation of the importance of transfers on the effect of parental SES on homeownership.

     
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    Series: SOEPpapers on multidisciplinary panel data research ; 1210 (2024)
    Subjects: Social stratification; homeownership; inheritance; intergenerational transfers
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  17. Architektur als Unglück
    Wie die Vergangenheit unsere Zukunft verbaut
    Author: Gabriel, Rainer
    Published: 2025
    Publisher:  Verlag Barbara Budrich, Leverkusen

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    Series: Schriftenreihe der Forschungsgruppe TRACE
    Other subjects: Architecture; Architektur; evolution; Evolution; Phänotyp, Design; phenotype; design; Vererbung; inheritance; Kultur; culture; Rhetorik; Orientierung; rhetoric; guidance; Hardcover, Softcover / Soziologie
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  18. Cultural Factors Influencing Gender Literacy Level
    A Case Study Of Village Dasuha, District Faisalabad
    Author: Ambreen, Mamonah
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken

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    Other subjects: (Produktform)Electronic book text; inheritance; Gender; Literacy; Mobility; barrier; Dowry; Patrilocal; Patriarchal and Partilineal.; (VLB-WN)1726: Soziologie/Frauenforschung, Geschlechterforschung
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  19. Condorcet was wrong, Pareto was right
    families, inheritance and inequality
    Author: Cowell, Frank A.; Van de Gaer, Dirk
    Published: [2017]
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    Series: Public Economics Programme discussion papers ; 34
    Subjects: wealth distribution; inheritance; inheritance taxation
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  20. On the retirement effect of inheritance
    heterogeneity and the role of risk aversion
    Author: Garbinti, Bertrand; Georges-Kot, Simon
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    This paper provides new insights on the effect of inheritance receipt on retirement. We build on lifelong information on inheritances received and labor market transitions available for respondents of the French Wealth Survey. This feature allows us... more

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    This paper provides new insights on the effect of inheritance receipt on retirement. We build on lifelong information on inheritances received and labor market transitions available for respondents of the French Wealth Survey. This feature allows us to compare current retirement rates among current and future inheritors. Chances of current retirement are 40% higher among current inheritors than among individuals who will inherit in the next two years, but there is substantial heterogeneity in this effect across socio-demographic groups. The effect is also stronger for individuals with a higher risk aversion, which we interpret with a simple theoretical model.

     
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    Series: Working paper series / European Central Bank ; no 2222 (January 2019)
    Subjects: pension scheme; inheritance; labour market; job vacancy; wealth; Retirement; inheritance; labor supply; risk aversion
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  21. Financial constraints and self-employment in France, 1945-2014
    = Les contraintes financières et l'entrepreneuriat en France de 1945 à 2014
    Author: Bauer, Arthur; Garbinti, Bertrand; Georges-Kot, Simon
    Published: [2018]
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    Series: Document de travail / Direction des études et synthèses économiques ; G 2018, 08
    Subjects: self-employment; credit constraints; inheritance; collateral channel
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  22. Inherited wealth over the path of development
    Sweden, 1810–2010
    Author: Ohlsson, Henry; Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Research Inst. of Industrial Economics, Stockholm

    Inherited wealth has attracted much attention recently, much due to the research by Thomas Piketty (Piketty, 2011; 2014). The discussion has mainly revolved around a long-run contrast between Eu-rope and the U.S., even though data on explicit... more

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    Inherited wealth has attracted much attention recently, much due to the research by Thomas Piketty (Piketty, 2011; 2014). The discussion has mainly revolved around a long-run contrast between Eu-rope and the U.S., even though data on explicit historical inheritance flows are only really available for France and to some extent for the U.K. We study the long-run evolution of inherited wealth in Sweden over the past two hundred years. The trends in Sweden are similar to those in France and the U.K: beginning at a high level in the nineteenth century, falling sharply in the interwar era and staying low thereafter, but tending to increase in recent years. The levels, however, differ greatly. The Swedish flows were only half of those in France and the U.K. before 1900 and also much lower after 1980. The main reason for the low levels in the nineteenth century is that the capital-income ratio is much lower than in "Old Europe". In fact, the Swedish capital-income ratio was similar to that in the U.S., but the savings and growth rates were much lower in Sweden than in the U.S. Rap-id income growth following industrialization and increasing savings rates were also important fac-tors behind the development of the capital-income ratio and the inheritance flow during the twenti-eth century. The recent differences in inheritance flows have several potential explanations related to the Swedish welfare state and pension system. Sweden was "un-European" during the nineteenth century because the country was so poor, Sweden is "un-European" today because so much wealth formation has taken place within the welfare state and the occupational pension systems.

     
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    Series: IFN working paper ; 1033
    Subjects: inheritance; capital accumulation; inverse mortality multiplier
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  23. Family types and intimate-partner violence
    a historical perspective
    Author: Tur-Prats, Ana
    Published: June 2015
    Publisher:  GSE, Graduate School of Economics, Barcelona

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    Subjects: gender inequality; cultural norms; persistence; inheritance; coresidence; Christian conquest
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  24. Family structure and the education gender gap
    evidence from Italian provinces
    Author: Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  CESifo, München

    We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and... more

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    We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture). After controlling for economic, institutional, religious, and cultural factors, we find that family structure is a driver of the education gender gap, with a higher female to male enrollment rate ratio in upper primary schools being associated with nuclear residential habits and equal partition of inheritance. The effect tends to persist through the present day.

     
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    Subjects: Frauenbildung; Geschlechterdiskriminierung; Familiensoziologie; Erbe; Geschichte; Italien; education gender gap; Italian unification; family types; inheritance; institutions; religion; convergence
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  25. Exploring the possibilities and boundaries of survey data for the analysis of wealth and wealth transfers
    Author: Westermeier, Christian
    Published: 2017

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