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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…
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