Viola Angelini is Full Professor in the Economics of Household Behaviour, Aletta Jacobs Chair, at the Department of Economics, Econometrics and Finance of the University of Groningen. She is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance and coordinator of the theme "Justice" of the Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health, focusing on socioeconomic inequalities in health. She is research fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO), the Netherlands Intedisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), the Network for Studies on Pensions, Ageing and Retirement (Netspar), the Health Econometrics and Data Group of the University of York (HEDG) and the Centre for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policy of the University of Turin (CeRP). Before joining the University of Groningen in 2010, she worked as Post-Doctoral Researcher for SHARE (the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe). She holds a joint Ph.D. in Economics from the Universities of York and Padua.
People who expect to die in the near future transfer an average of 8-12% of their financial wealth to their loved ones. What’s more, such transfers take place not only among the richest households in society, but also in middle-class families. These are the central findings of a new study of estate planning and inter-vivos […]
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