To leave or not to leave: The distribution of bequest motives

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 207-235

  Kopczuk, Wojciech ^a   Lupton, Joseph P ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY POPULATION; MODELING;

EID: 33845991497     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2007.00419.x     Document Type: Article

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