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SUSTAINWELL and the SDGs
On 25 September 2015, all United Nations Member States adopted a new Sustainable Development Agenda which provides a framework to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all by 2030. It outlines 17 goals with the greatest challenges of the 21st century requiring deep structural, regulatory and behavioural transformation. Every year, the UN…
Sustainability and intergenerational solidarity
Ció Patxot, the project coordinator, participated in a Round table on ‘Sustainability and intergenerational solidarity’ during the first day of the XIX Congress of Basque Studies which was focused on the “New socio-economic model and welfare society”. The Congress was held on October 2, 3 and 4, 2024 in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain). The discussion sparked with…
Interview with James Sefton: there is more solidarity between generations than the “Millennials versus Boomers” narrative would suggest
James Sefton, Chair in Economics – Academic Director for MSc Finance & Accounting, MSc Financial Technology and MSc Investment & Wealth Management, talks about intergenerational solidarity, wealth booms and debt burdens. Click here to watch the video
The Elderly Bias of the Spanish Welfare State (1958–2012)
The Spanish welfare state is strongly biased toward sustaining the elderly’s welfare, rather than children’s. We study the evolution of that bias since 1958 through National Transfer Accounts (NTA). NTA disentangle how people produce, consume, and save along their life cycle, and how resources move among generations through different mechanisms (families, markets, and governments). We…
We celebrate our 2nd General Meeting
From the 9th to 11th of October, we held our second General Meeting in Barcelona, Spain. Three intense days strengthening our collaboration and sharing our latest advances on all WPs, as well as aligning the project’s objectives, priorities and next steps to further contribute to a resilient Europe and sustainable welfare systems in the 21st century reality. During the…
International Multiconference Information Society 2024
SUSTAINWELL researcher Jože Sambt presented “When tempo component in the total fertility rate fades away” at the Demographic and Family Analyses Conference on 7 October 2024 in Ljubljana (Slovenia) Access the publication here
Health Economics Association Conference
SUSTAINWELL researchers Alexandrina Stoyanova, Raquel Andrés and Gemma Abio (UB) held presentations on the XLII edition of the Health Economics Association (AES) Conference on 5 -7 July at the University of Girona (Spain) .
Young teens at play: Girls are egalitarian, boys are generous
Using the decisions of 2500 girls and boys in three mini dictator games, this paper investigates how the social preferences of five cohorts of students (aged 12 to 16) evolve throughout adolescence. We find that at early ages (12 years old, 7th grade), girls tend to be egalitarian, boys are more generous, and <10 % exhibit spiteful…
SUSTAINWELL at the European Population Conference 2024
SUSTAINWELL researchers Bernhard Binder-Hammer and Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz (OEAW) held a presentation on “Age-Specific Income Trends in Europe and the Role of Government Redistribution” at the 2024 European Population Conference that took place in Edinburgh on 12-15 June. Access the presentation here
SUSTAINWELL at the 9th World Congress of the International Microsimulation Association
SUSTAINWELL was presented at the 9th World Congress of the International Microsimulation Association that took place at the University of Vienna on 8 – 10 January by the project coordinator, Ció Patxot (UB). The conferences was organised by the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO).
SUSTAINWELL: Addressing the long-term socio-economic impact of population ageing on European society
New Horizon Europe project SUSTAINWELL addresses the medium and long-term impacts of ageing societies on income redistribution. It measures the roles of market, the government, and the family in providing wellbeing along the lifecycle, combining comparable European datasets and integrates this into a dynamic microsimulation projection. Population ageing is one of the main challenges that…