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SUSTAINWELL at the EPC 2026 in Bologna
On 3-6 June 2026, researcher Bernhard Binder-Hammer from the Vienna Institute of Demography took part at the European Population Conference, celebrated in Bologna (Italy). His presentation titled “Generation and Redistribution of Income from an Age-Perspective. European National Transfer Accounts for the Period 2008 – 2022” shows preliminary results to illustrate the importance of age-dimension when…
SUSTAINWELL in Fundació ‘la Caixa’ MediaHub
We are happy to share that SUSTAINWELL has been featured in the MediaHub of our partner Fundacion ‘la Caixa’ through its Social Observatory, with an article titled “Do financial incentives boost fertility in the long term?” In this article, our colleagues Lidia Cruces and F. Javier Rodríguez Román at Goethe Universität Frankfurt provide an assessment…
The impact of demographic change on public Long-Term Care costs
The WIFO team has published a new report examining the influence of demographic change, education and health on future care needs and public care costs. In Austria, a significant increase in care expenditure is evident, primarily driven by rising life expectancy, though the expansion of education has a dampening effect. Comparative analyses of Austria, Spain…
SUSTAINWELL at the ACE Symposium 25
In December 2025, Matic Verbič from University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) attended the 2nd International PhD Research Symposium organised by the ACE Association (Alliance of Chinese and European Business Schools Network) in Xiamen (China) to present his work on Statistical Matching of Income and Consumption data for Gendered Analysis in Ageing European Societies. The research covers 23…
The cost of parenthood: Men with children spend an extra hour on household chores
Last month, results from this paper Lifecycle analysis of the gender gap in paid and unpaid work by household structure were featured in the Spanish newspaper, La Vanguardia. When comparing couples with and without children, it is observed that the former work longer hours than the latter: an average of 14.7 hours per day compared…
How Ageing and Migration Affect European Economies: An Analysis Using European National Transfer Accounts
On 19-21 November 2025, Bernhard Binder-Hammer from the Vienna Institute of Demography (OEAW) team presented this poster at the Wittgenstein Centre Conference on Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century
The impact of obesity on human capital accumulation: Exploring the driving factors
Abstract This paper examines the impact of childhood obesity on Spanish high school students’ academic achievement and human capital accumulation. To address potential endogeneity concerns, we exploit exogenous variation in obesity within peer groups, using data from friendship networks. Specifically, we instrument individual obesity with the average body mass index of intransitive friendship triads. Our…
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Lifecycle analysis of the gender gap in paid and unpaid work by household structure Abstract The paper provides new insights into men and women’s lifetime contributions to the overall economy and societal well-being, taking both market and non-market activities into account. It extends the National Transfer Accounts (NTA) and National Time Transfer Accounts (NTTA) methodologies…
The Impact of Ageing, Socio-economic Differences and the Evolution of Morbidity on Future Health Expenditure – a Dynamic Microsimulation
Researchers from the WIFO team have released a new publication about the impact of population ageing on healthcare expenditure. They use dynamic microsimulation to project healthcare expenditure in Austria and disentangle the effects of changes in longevity, population age-structure, healthy life years and socio-economic health disparities. By combining price weights for healthcare services with information…
External Effects of the Pension System in the Context of the Welfare State
This paper provides results from different studies conducted by the Gemma Abio, Ció Patxot (UB) and Guadalupe Souto (UAB) and other authors aiming at measuring the external effects generated by the existence of an intergenerational transfer system, such as the pension system, and the welfare state as a whole. The primary reason for the presence…
Microdata in Macromodels
Martin Spielauer and Philipp Warum from WIFO participated in the MacroABM 2nd Workshop last 29-30 April celebrated at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). The workshop brought together researchers from diverse modelling perspectives, including ABM, HANK, and microsimulations, to encourage collaboration across currently disconnected fields and explore challenges and innovative solutions in using microdata…
International Odyssey Conference on Economics and Business
University of Ljubljana researchers participated in the 16th International Odyssey Conference on Economics and Business celebrated in Dubrovnik (Coatia) from 7th to 10th May 2025, organised by the Faculty of Economics and Business (University of Zagreb, Croatia). The Conference gathers together researchers and practitioners to discuss about the latest challenges in the field of business…