Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/67234
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7014
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Charitable bequests are a major source of income for charities but surprisingly little is known about them. The aim of this paper is to propose a multi-stage framework for analysing the bequest decision and to examine the evidence for Great Britain provided by new data on estates. The novelty of the framework is that it distinguishes between the different steps that lead to a charitable bequest. Our new data for Britain have the advantage of covering the whole population, in contrast to much of the US literature based on the small fraction of the population covered by estate tax returns. We focus on the relationship with wealth at death, on the form of the bequest, and on the different causes to which people bequeath.
Subjects: 
charitable donations
bequests
wealth
death
estate tax
NGOs
JEL: 
D12
D31
D64
L31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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