| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w7791 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 7791 |
| Bequests as Signals: An Explanation for the Equal Division Puzzle | |
| B. Douglas Bernheim; Sergei Severinov | |
| 发表日期 | 2000-07-01 |
| 出版年 | 2000 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | 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 intergenerational transfers. In this paper, we develop a theory that accounts for this puzzle, based on the notion that the division of bequests provides a signal about a parent's altruistic preferences. The theory can also explain the norm of unigeniture, which prevails in other societies. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Public Economics ; Taxation |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w7791 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/565363 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | B. Douglas Bernheim,Sergei Severinov. Bequests as Signals: An Explanation for the Equal Division Puzzle. 2000. |
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| w7791.pdf（3289KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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