Inheritances, health and death /
We examine how wealth shocks, in the form of inheritances, affect the mortality rates, health status and health behaviors of older adults, using data from eight waves of the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS). Our main finding is that bequests do not have substantial effects on health, although some...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
National Bureau of Economic Research,
c2009
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| Series: | Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) ;
working paper no. 15364 |
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H11.N27534 no.15364 |
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