Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz
Research Scholar
Economic Frontiers Program
Research Scholar
Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
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Biography
Alexia Furnkranz-Prskawetz holds a doctorate in mathematical economics from the Vienna University of Technology, as well as a second doctorate (Habilitation) in population economics and applied econometrics from the same University. She is professor at the Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics at TU Wien, deputy director at the Vienna Institute of Demography at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and one of the four directors of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, OeAW, University of Vienna). She is working in the field of the economics of population and individual ageing, long run economic growth, agent based models and environmental economics. She has published numerous articles in refereed scientific journals and edited special issues of economic and demographic journals.Dr. Furnkranz-Prskawetz joined the World Population (POP) Program in July 2013, to work on models of the interrelationship between population, the economy and environment. Since 2021 she continues her work in the Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing (SHAW) Research Group, in the IIASA Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Program.
Last update: 29 MAR 2021
Publications
Skritek, B., Crespo Cuaresma, J., Kryazhimskiy, A.V., Prettner, K., Prskawetz, A., & Rovenskaya, E. (2015). Revisiting the Lucas model. [[ECON WPS]] - Vienna University of Technology Working Papers in Economic Theory and Policy, No. 03/2015 [2015]
Kuhn, M., Prskawetz, A., & Sunde, U. (2014). Health, education, and retirement over the prolonged life cycle: a selective survey of recent research. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 12 1-22. 10.1553/populationyearbook2014s1.
Mahlberg, B., Freund, I., Crespo Cuaresma, J., & Prskawetz, A. (2013). The age-productivity pattern: Do location and sector affiliation matter? The Journal of the Economics of Ageing 1-2 72-82. 10.1016/j.jeoa.2013.08.002.
Schaefer, A. & Prskawetz, A. (2013). Pollution, Public Health Care, and Life Expectancy When Inequality Matters. IIASA Interim Report. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: IR-13-015
Mahlberg, B., Freund, I., Crespo Cuaresma, J., & Prskawetz, A. (2013). Ageing, productivity and wages in Austria. Labour Economics 5-15. 10.1016/j.labeco.2012.09.005.