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Does Financial Aid Improve Student Success? Evidence from Portugal

Sophie Guthmuller and Elena Claudia Meroni show that need-based aid slightly increases matriculation in Portugal but not performance.

[Translate to English:] Cover Handbook Social Policy

Civil Society in Transition: New Insights into Continental Welfare States

Astrid Pennerstorfer, Karin Heitzmann, and August Österle explore civil society’s evolving role in continental welfare states in their new publication.

[Translate to English:] Cover Sociology of Health and Illness

New Publication by Daniela Weber

Pathways Into and Out of Loneliness: Older Population during the COVID-19 Pandemic

[Translate to English:] Health Economics and Policy Group Annual Report 2025

Health Economics and Policy Group Annual Report 2025

The Annual Report of the Health Economics and Policy Group has been published for 2025.

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Health and Social Policy Specialization at WU’s Spezialisierungsmesse

The Health and Social Policy Specialization participated at WU’s Spezialisierungsmesse on January 12, 2026.

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Registration and Call for Papers: European Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics (EWEHE)

26 August 2026 –  28 August 2026 at WU Vienna The Health Economics and Policy Group at WU Vienna is pleased to host the 33rd European Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics (EWEHE) from 26 to…

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Transforming Care Network: Early Career Researcher Workshop 2026

29 June 2026 – 1 July 2026 at WU Vienna We warmly invite PhD students and early career researchers to apply for the in-person Early Career Workshop in Researching Care and Care Policy in Europe:…

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Astrid Pennerstorfer and Julia Radlherr present preliminary findings at the Transforming Care Conference

Astrid Pennerstorfer and Julia Radlherr presented first findings from the research project "Inequalities in the Take-Up of Long-Term Care Allowances in Austria" at the Transforming Care Conference…

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RWI prize as the second best scientific article published in 2023

The paper ‘Effects of organised screening programs on breast cancer screening, incidence, and mortality in Europe’ by Sophie Guthmuller, Vincenzo Carrieri and Ansgar Wübker, published in the Journal…

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Dr. Susan Stewart as Guest at the Institute for Social Policy

Dr. Susan Stewart (National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts) will once again be a guest at the Institute for Social Policy from mid-September 2024 to mid-February 2025. Susan…