We revisit the alleged retirement consumption puzzle. According to the life-cycle theory, foreseeable income reductions such as those around retirement should not affect consumption. However, we first recall that given higher leisure endowments after retirement, the theory does predict a fall of...

We study potential drivers of the link between gendered languages and gender differences in economic behaviour that economists have recently documented. Combining identity economics and linguistic theory, our formal model distinguishes a direct effect of speaking a gendered language from...

With a survey experiment conducted in Germany, Italy, Poland, and Sweden, we investigate how EU citizens rank themselves within the EU. In all four countries, (mis-)perceptions of EU income positions result primarily from respondents' (incomplete) information about their national position and...

We examine the relationship between perceived income positions and attitudes towards inequality at a supranational-level. Conducting a survey in four EU Member States (Germany, Italy, Poland, and Sweden), we confirm that their citizens misperceive their own income position in the EU. Once we...

Andreas Peichl und Britta Rude, ifo Institut, stellen die Entwicklung des geschlechtsspezifischen Einkommensgefälles in Deutschland dar. So sei die geschlechtsspezifische Einkommenskluft zwischen 2001 und 2016 leicht gestiegen. Besonders signifikant seien Einkommensunterschiede zwischen...

Miriam Beblo, Universität Hamburg, zeigt, dass die staatlichen Ausgaben in Deutschland für familien- und ehebezogene Maßnahmen im europäischen Mittelfeld liegen. In ihrer Gesamtheit bewirkten die Familienleistungen eine Umverteilung von Haushalten mit hohen zu Haushalten mit niedrigen...

Foreseeable income reductions around retirement should not affect aggregate consumption. However, given higher leisure endowments after retirement, theory also predicts lower consumption of leisure substitutes. To avoid misinterpreting this predicted drop as a puzzle, our novel approach focuses...