Severin Rapp, MSc.

Contact details
E-Mail: severin.rapp@wu.ac.at
Personal details
Severin Rapp is part of the scientific staff at the research institute "Economics of Inequality" and the Institute for Macroeconomics since October 2019. His doctoral research focuses on political economy, the welfare state and wealth redistribution. In research projects on these issues, he cooperated with the Ministry of Social Affairs and the City of Vienna. Severin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business and an MSc in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxford.
Expertise
Political economy
Welfare state
Wealth distribution
Recently completed projects
Wealth in Vienna
Project BrieFThe cost of children - Methods and Bandwidths
Project BrieF
Teaching in the ongoing semester
Severin Rapp in Summer term 2022
Publications
Paper presented at an academic conference or symposium
2022 | Rapp, Severin, Lechinger, Vanessa, Lasser, Robert, Humer, Stefan. 2022. Housing policy and the distribution of wealth: A comparison of Austrian regions. Stone Center on Economic Inequality Wealth Seminar Series, New York - Online, Vereinigte Staaten/USA, 29.04. Invited Talk Read more |
2021 | Rapp, Severin. 2021. Asset Bias in Household Needs and Equivalence Scale Measurement. Social Policy Association Virtual Annual Conference, Virtual, Großbritannien, 09.07-11.07. Read more |
2021 | Rapp, Severin, Lechinger, Vanessa, Lasser, Robert, Dabrowski, Cara. 2021. Housing policy and the distribution of wealth: A comparative perspective on public and private wealth. Young Economists Conference, Linz, Österreich, 05.10-06.10. Read more |
2021 | Rapp, Severin, Lechinger, Vanessa, Lasser, Robert, Dabrowski, Cara. 2021. Housing policy and the distribution of wealth: A comparative perspective on public and private wealth. HFCS Seminar, Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Österreich, 05.10. Invited Talk Read more |
2020 | Rapp, Severin. 2020. Minding the Gap: How Welfare States Mediate the Dynamics Between Income and Consumption Distribution. Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association NOeG 2020, Wien, Österreich, 24.02-25.02. Read more |
2020 | Rapp, Severin, Humer, Stefan. 2020. Varieties of Vulnerability: Do Private and Public Safety Nets Compensate for Asset Poverty? Annual ESPAnet Conference, Zoom, Belgien, 04.09.2020. Read more |
2020 | Rapp, Severin. 2020. Why are subjective equivalence scales so low? Asset-bias in household needs measurement. AK Young Economists Conference, Wien, Österreich, 02.10. Read more |
Working/discussion paper, preprint
2021 | Rapp, Severin. 2021. Asset Bias in Household Needs Measurement. Read more |
Media report
2021 | Rapp, Severin. 2021. Transparenz in der Verteilungsfrage - Öffentliches und privates Vermögen gemeinsam betrachtet. Read more |
2021 | Rapp, Severin. 2021. Wie ändert die Berücksichtigung von öffentlichem Vermögen die Verteilungsfrage? Read more |
2020 | Humer, Stefan, Rapp, Severin, Lengyel-Wiesinger, Judith. 2020. Was kosten Kinder? Read more |
2019 | Rapp, Severin. 2019. Doppelt hält besser: Einkommens- und Konsumverteilung verstehen. Read more |