The Design of Social Policy in a Heterogeneous World

Projektinformationen

HETEROPOLIS

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 716485

DOI 10.3030/716485

Projekt abgeschlossen

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 23 Januar 2017

Startdatum 1 Februar 2017

Enddatum 31 Juli 2022

Finanziert unter

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Gesamtkosten € 1 497 505,00

EU-Beitrag € 1 497 505,00

Koordiniert durch

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
United Kingdom

Ziel

Modern societies are characterized by tremendous heterogeneity in economic outcomes: from heterogeneity in wages and employment, to heterogeneity in capital income, wealth and health outcomes. It is unclear, however, how to map heterogeneity in these outcomes to heterogeneity in welfare. This mapping is crucial for the design of tax and benefit systems, providing insurance against individual risk and redistributing income between individuals, while maintaining proper incentives.

The main objectives of HETEROPOLIS are: 1) to provide new insights on the relation between inequality in earnings, wealth and consumption, 2) to develop a new consumption-based method to measure welfare inequality and heterogeneity in the marginal value of social transfers, 3) to provide and implement a simple, but general evidence-based framework to evaluate the differential design of social insurance based on observable heterogeneity, 4) to analyse selection effects due to unobservable heterogeneity and how they affect social insurance design, 5) to analyse heterogeneity in behavioural “biases” and their consequences for policy design.

The first part of HETEROPOLIS analyses the use of registry-based consumption measures to evaluate heterogeneity in welfare and exploits a newly developed data set based on administrative registers for the universe of Swedish households providing comprehensive and detailed information on income, wealth, labour market outcomes and other variables. The second part develops and implements a general evidence-based framework to evaluate the design of multi-faceted social insurance programs in a heterogeneous world. The final part of HETEROPOLIS analyses and estimates different sources of heterogeneity that affect market efficiency and justify further government interventions.

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet

• humanities › history and archaeology › history
• social sciences › sociology › governance › taxation
• social sciences › economics and business › business and management › employment
• social sciences › sociology › social issues › unemployment

Schlüsselbegriffe

• HETEROPOLIS

Programm/Programme

• H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme

Thema/Themen

• ERC-2016-STG - ERC Starting Grant

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

ERC-2016-STG

Finanzierungsplan

ERC-STG - Starting Grant

Gastgebende Einrichtung

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 1 497 505,00
• Adresse: Houghton Street 1 ; WC2A 2AE London ; Vereinigtes Königreich
• Region: London › Inner London — West › Westminster
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: € 1 497 505,00

Begünstigte (1)

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

Vereinigtes Königreich

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 1 497 505,00
• Adresse: Houghton Street 1 ; WC2A 2AE London
• Region: London › Inner London — West › Westminster
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: € 1 497 505,00