Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/70105 
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Year of Publication: 
1998
Series/Report no.: 
Reihe Ökonomie / Economics Series No. 54
Publisher: 
Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna
Abstract: 
The large amount of equal division of bequests by parents who otherwise would have compensated the earning differences among their children is attributed to the cost associated with unequal bequests. This paper identifies a source of this cost and explains why equal bequests to children whose earnings differ, and parental altruism toward these children, are not mutually exclusive.
Subjects: 
parental altruism
equal bequests
JEL: 
D10
D31
D63
D64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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