Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/61050 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3901
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
I study a model of a representative individual who has a motive for leaving bequests and is at risk of needing long-term care in old age. I assume - as is typical for OECD countries - that the individual is not fully insured against this risk. Moreover, at realization the individual is unable to adapt labor supply or consumption; then expenditures for long-term care result in a one-to-one reduction of the estate. In this situation a tax on bequests provides insurance and its introduction causes a smaller deadweight loss than an income or consumption tax. I also characterize the optimal tax and transfer system in this model.
Subjects: 
estate tax
long-term care insurance
JEL: 
H21
H24
I13
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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