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Motivation
Intergenerational wealth transfers are economically important and have direct consequences on the distribution—or redistribution—of household and community wealth. In sub‐Saharan Africa, documented instances of weakly enforced statutory laws and outdated or misaligned customary laws create a space for practices that undermine the fair and smooth transition of wealth across generations...