The last will: Estate divisions as a testament of to whom altruism is directed. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 We use data on estate divisions to study to whom altruistic preferences are directed. Insofar bequests are given without the prospect of future personal benefits in mind, they are presumably intrinsically motivated. Hence, estate divisions provide a rare
Mikael Elinder +2 more
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Legacy in the Republic of Serbia: Concept and types [PDF]
Megatrend Revija, 2021 The family is the basic cell of every society; in it the life of an individual rises, develops and disappears. Family relations are the basis of every social and state system.
Račić Anđelka
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Unmasking an Enigma: Who Was Lady Wallace and What Did She Achieve?
19, 2021 Lady Wallace had a remarkable life but she has remained a tantalizingly enigmatic figure, not least because we have nothing written in her own hand. She was born in Paris to unmarried parents, a factotum and a linen maid, in 1819.
Suzanne Elizabeth Higgott
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European Economic Review, 2015 Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among their children.
Francesconi, Marco +2 more
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Medieval concerns for soul salvation testamentary bequests to the Franciscan order in Kotor (Cattaro) 1326-1337 [PDF]
Balcanica, 2012 Analysis of the testamentary bequests that Kotor citizens made to the Franciscans ad pias causas between 1326 and 1337 shows that the most common type was that of pecuniary bequests for saying masses pro remedio animae.
Živković Valentina
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Sentio me grauatum de malo ablato compensation for the sin of ill-gotten gain in the wills of Kotor (Cattaro) citizens 1326-1337 [PDF]
Balcanica, 2015 The focus of the paper is on bequests pro male ablatis in the wills of Kotor citizens drawn up between 1326 and 1337 against the backdrop of their own time and the dynamic relationship between Christian ethics and mercantile and banking ...
Živković Valentina
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On the trail of a painting bequeathed to St. George’s abbey on the islet near Perast the testaments of Nycolaus and Johannes Glauacti (as of 1327 and 1336) [PDF]
Zograf, 2014 The paper reviews the last will of the Kotor nobleman Nycolaus Marini Glauacti made in 1327 to bequeath to St. George’s church on the small island near Perast a depiction of the Madonna, St. Nicholas and St. John the Baptist.
Živković Valentina
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Reformy w zakresie odpowiedzialności spadkobierców za zapisy w państwie rzymskim w okresie republiki
Opolskie Studia Administracyjno-Prawne, 2020 The article deals with the problem of limitation of liability for bequests in Roman law in the period of the Republic. The laws were discussed, on the basis of which the Roman legislator in the time of the Republic, tried to create a real incentive to ...
Renata Świrgoń-Skok
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Economic Theory, 2022 AbstractThis paper shows that, when parents can endow their offspring with bequests and human capital, markets cannot deliver (generically under laissez-faire) the planner’s choice, if educational investments affect total factor productivity—as empirical evidence establishes.
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The impact of demographic change on intergenerational transfers via bequests
Demographic Research, 2015 Background: Transfers in the form of bequests have important implications for the intergenerational transmission of inequality. Demographic change has relevant consequences for the timing and size of bequests. For example, longer life implies that people
Emilio Zagheni, Brittney Wagner
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