In dem Gutachten wird die Entwicklung von Höhe und Struktur des privaten Verbrauchsin Deutschland bis zum Jahr 2050 untersucht. Im Vordergrund stehen dabei die Auswirkungen der zu erwartenden Veränderungen der Bevölkerung und der Zusammensetzung der Haushalte auf Höhe und Struktur des...

This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System...

We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the extent of intergenerational economic mobility in a framework that highlights the role played by assortative mating. We find that assortative mating plays an important role. On average about...

Lifespan psychological research has long been interested in the contextual embeddedness of individual development. To examine if and how regional factors relate to between-person disparities in the progression of late-life well-being, we applied three-level growth curve models to 24-year...