The Behavioural Economics of Inheritance Litigation. Australians are witnessing the greatest intergenerational wealth transfer in history. Unfortunately, more and more families are going to court over

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The Behavioural Economics of Inheritance Litigation. Australians are witnessing the greatest intergenerational wealth transfer in history. Unfortunately, more and more families are going to court over inheritance. These disputes tear families apart and impose excessive costs on families and the courts. This project applies legal, behavioural economic and statistical methods to study inheritance battles. It seeks to generate new knowledge about the drivers of inheritance litigation, in order to make it cost-effective. Its expected outcomes include behavioural economic models of inheritance litigation to predict what cost-reduction strategies will work; a large database of real-world inheritance cases to test these predictions; and robust law-reform recommendations to reduce litigation costs.. Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Field: 4805 - Legal Systems. Lead: Dr Ben Chen