Don Cox on the Economics of Inheritance
May 4 2006

Cox.jpgRuss Roberts and Don Cox of Boston College discuss the economics of inheritance, estates and the family. They look at how parents divide their time and money between their children and our concerns for what people think of us after we are gone.

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