Laboratory

Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-Being

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Intergenerational Transfers and Demographic Outcomes

Ole Hexel, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Emilio Zagheni; in Collaboration with Fanny Annemarie Kluge (State of Berlin, Germany)

We study generational resource sharing via different transfer mechanisms around the globe. A major goal is to assess the impact of transfers on health, well-being, and survival, and to look at the influence of mortality, demographic processes, and kinship structures on transfers.  Detailed Description

Mortality risk according to generosity of the country

The risk of dying at young ages is lower in more generous countries (Fig. 2 from Vogt, Kluge, and Lee 2020. Age-standardized risk of death age 0 to 20 and share of lifetime income transferred to others.) © https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1920978117

Publications

Hexel, O.; Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Zagheni, E.:

Family structure and bequest inequalities between black and white households in the United States, 1989-2022

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2024-008. (2024)    

Kluge, F. A.; Vogt, T.:

The fiscal impact of population ageing in Germany: an unequal challenge for different levels of government

In: Ageing and fiscal challenges across levels of government, 63–76. Paris: OECD Publishing. (2020)    

Vogt, T. C.; Kluge, F. A.; Lee, R.:

Intergenerational resource sharing and mortality in a global perspective

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117:37, 22793–22799. (2020)    

Kluge, F. A.; Goldstein, J. R.; Vogt, T. C.:

Transfers in an aging European Union

Journal of the Economics of Ageing 13, 45–54. (2019)    

Kluge, F. A.:

Wieviel Geld zahlt jung an alt und umgekehrt?

In: Grünbuch Alternde Gesellschaft: wie das "neue Altern" unser Leben verändern wird, 27–30. München: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. (2017)