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Autor:
Pirmin Fessler, Martin Schürz
Publikováno v:
Public Sector Economics, Vol 44, Iss 4, Pp 463-482 (2020)
Inheritance fundamentally violates the meritocratic justice principle of society. Despite the high level of wealth concentration and the fact that few people would be affected, political support for an inheritance tax is rather low. The topic of inhe
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/9d3b1da30d8b4a21b8d36edf68a42409
Autor:
Pirmin Fessler, Martin Schürz
Publikováno v:
The Media and Inequality ISBN: 9781003104476
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::62e6d9fa913947cbca7b4eb2b17286fe
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003104476-7
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003104476-7
Publikováno v:
Social Indicators Research. 158:409-438
We explore microdata from the OECD/INFE survey on financial literacy of adult individuals. We find considerable differences in financial literacy across countries and decompose them into a part explainable by varying individual characteristics and a
Autor:
Pirmin Fessler, Maximilian Kasy
Publikováno v:
The Review of Economics and Statistics. 101:681-698
We propose to use economic theories to construct shrinkage estimators that perform well when the theories' empirical implications are approximately correct but perform no worse than unrestricted estimators when the theories' implications do not hold.
Publikováno v:
Economic Modelling. 116:106033
Publikováno v:
Empirica. 47:929-947
This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the links between financial knowledge, attitude and behavior, based on the Austrian contribution to the OECD/INFE survey on financial literacy. Our analysis gives evidence of causal effects of financial kno
Autor:
Pirmin, Fessler, Alyssa, Schneebaum
Publikováno v:
Applied Economics
Preschool attendance is widely recognized as a key ingredient for later socioeconomic success, mothers’ labor market participation, and leveling the playing field for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. However, the empirical evidence for thes
Publikováno v:
Economics Letters
The recent spread of COVID-19 has led to the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. To boost demand after the crisis, direct monetary transfers to households are being discussed. Using novel microdata from the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consump
Publikováno v:
Finance and Economics Discussion Series. 2020
We employ recent Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) microdata from the US to analyze the impacts of confidence in one’s own financial knowledge, confidence in the economy, and objective financial literacy on investment in risky financial assets (equ
Publikováno v:
Economics Letters. 168:102-106
Using international OECD/INFE microdata, we show that the gender gap in financial literacy is highest in more developed countries. Only some of the gap can be explained by personal characteristics; the rest may be due to economic and social environme