• Exposure to the COVID-19 Stock Market Crash and its Effect on Household Expectations 

      Hanspal, Tobin; Weber, Annika; Wohlfart, Johannes (2020-05-21)
      We survey a representative sample of US households to study how exposure to the COVID-19 stock market crash affects expectations and planned behavior. Wealth shocks are associated with upward adjustments of expectations ...
    • Financial Education for the Disadvantaged? A Review 

      Entorf, Horst; Hou, Jia (2018-04-20)
      In contrast to the popularity of financial education interventions worldwide, studies on the economic effects of those interventions report mixed results. With a focus on the effect on disadvantaged groups, we review both ...
    • Pro-rich Inflation in Europe: Implications for the Measurement of Inequality 

      Gürer, Eren; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. (2018-05-17)
      This paper studies the distributional consequences of a systematic variation in expenditure shares and prices. Using European Union Household Budget Surveys and Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices data, we construct ...
    • The Long-Term Distributional and Welfare Effects of Covid-19 School Closures 

      Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Krueger, Dirk; Ludwig, Alexander; Popova, Irina (2020-09-21)
      Using a structural life-cycle model, we quantify the long-term impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental characteristics. ...