Severin Rapp, MSc.

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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 BrieF
The cost of children - Methods and Bandwidths
Project BrieF

Teaching in the ongoing semester

Severin Rapp in Winter term 2021/22

Publications

Paper presented at an academic conference or symposium

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. 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

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