Intergenerational disagreements in labor supply and optimal bequest taxation

This paper studies optimal taxation of bequests in a model where altruistic parents and their offspring disagree on the offspring's labor supply decision. I show that whenever offspring is too lazy from the parent's perspective and there are income effects on labor supply, optimal policy i...

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Main Author: Hakki Yazici
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-12-01
Series:Central Bank Review
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1303070117300562