Family policies and redistribution: Impacts, perceptions and optimal design (A09)

• Subject Area: Economic Theory
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 280092119

The project will inform about family policy reforms. Their optimal design requires empirical knowledge about (a) behavioral responses of individuals to the incentives provided and (b) societal preferences for redistribution. The project will study the implications of parental leave duration and parental leave benefits for labor market behavior of mothers, and it will conduct survey experiments to analyze determinants of inequality and fairness perceptions as well as preferences for redistribution, leading up to analyzes of the optimal design of policy reforms.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 190: Rationality and Competition: The Economic Performance of Individuals and Firms
• Applicant Institution: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Andreas Peichl; Professor Dr. Dominik Sachs, until 7/2021