Fabian Kindermann is Assistant Professor at the University of Bonn (Germany). Before he has been a Postdoc Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University and Assistant Professor at University of Wuerzburg (Germany). He is also a Junior Research Fellow at the Network for the Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement (Netspar) and a Member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group (HCEO). He received a doctoral degree from University of Wuerzburg in 2012. His research interests are in Public Economics and Macroeconomics. His current research focuses on optimal tax policy, education finance and education decisions, family economics and social security.
Although inheritance taxes are of growing importance for Western economies in raising government revenue, little is known about how inheritance taxation affects individuals’ incentives to...
Europe is in the midst of a demographic crisis. After a phase of high birth rates in the decades after WWII when many families had three or more children, more and more couples nowadays s...
