… As I argue below, there is strong evidence that intergenerational transfers play a very … saving
for gifts and bequests is the main motive for savings. Significant intergenerational transfers …

… transfer wealth accounts for approximately 20–25 percent of current household net worth,
suggesting a much larger role for life-cycle savings … of the flow of transfers in 1998 using an …

… This paper has presented the results of an OLG-experiment on the individual choice
between intergenerational transfers and savings. Two treatments, based on a two-overlapping-…

… savings cannot explain the capital stock in an accounting sense and that in the absence of
intergenerational transfers … , and government taxes and transfers are used to directly estimate …

… intergenerational transfers. The state increasingly displaces or complements family structures
in providing intergenerational transfers… line between transfers and ordinary savings here? - …

This paper investigates the quantitative importance of different savings motives on the
distributions of wealth and consumption and aggregate capital accumulation by solving an …

… saving rates: if richer people have higher saving rates, why has the United States, the wealthiest
nation in the world, not had a higher saving … because intergenerational transfers account …

… ABSTRACT We analyze the interest rat e and savings effects of fiscal policy in an … rate of
return to household savings . Private inter generational transfers are widespread and primarily …

The purpose of this paper is to review what economists know at present about the following
question: How large a portion of the existing wealth is the result of a bequest motive, that is, …

… flow of intergenerational assistance and personal savings on … China who receive financial
transfers from children are more … participation, intergenerational transfers and savings have …