The Bequest Process and the Causes of Inequality in the Distribution of Wealth

Michael Wolfson
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Copyright 1980
ISBN 0226764540
Modeling the Distribution and Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth
Book: Modeling the Distribution and Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth
Book editor: James D. Smith
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
Series: Studies in Income and Wealth
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  • Michael Wolfson, Modeling the Distribution and Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth (University of Chicago Press, 1980), chap. 5, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/modeling-distribution-and-intergenerational-transmission-wealth/bequest-process-and-causes-inequality-distribution-wealth.

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