November 4, 1999

Study: Charitable Bequests Could Total $25-Trillion During Next 50 Years

By THOMAS J. BILLITTERI

Predicting a coming "golden age of philanthropy," a pair of Boston College researchers say that charities could gain $6-trillion to $25-trillion in bequests over the next 50 years.

John J. Havens and Paul G. Schervish estimate that $41-trillion to $136-trillion will change hands over the next half century -- far more than the $10-trillion to $13-trillion that previous studies had forecast for the so-called intergenerational transfer of wealth.

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