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Alexia Prskawetz

Alexia Prskawetz

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Economics and Finance
Austria
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
45
Citations
8988
World Ranking
1753
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Alexia Prskawetz is affiliated with TU Wien in Austria and conducts research primarily in the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Health Professions, and Social Sciences. Their work spans a variety of subfields including Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Modeling and Simulation, Infectious Diseases, and Demography.

The main topics covered in Alexia Prskawetz's research include:

  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies

Recent publications by Alexia Prskawetz illustrate a focus on public health and economic issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as demographic and pension system analyses. Selected recent papers include:

  • The optimal lockdown intensity for COVID-19 (2021) published in Journal of Mathematical Economics
  • How long should the COVID-19 lockdown continue? (2020) published in PLoS ONE
  • Redistributive effects of different pension systems when longevity varies by socioeconomic status (2020) published in The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
  • Age-Specific Income Trends in Europe: The Role of Employment, Wages, and Social Transfers (2021) published in Social Indicators Research
  • The impact of COVID-19 vaccines on the Case Fatality Rate: The importance of monitoring breakthrough infections (2022) published in International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Alexia Prskawetz frequently collaborates with several co-authors, notably:

  • Miguel Sánchez-Romero
  • Gustav Feichtinger
  • Stefan Wrzaczek
  • Andrea Seidl
  • Jonathan P. Caulkins

Their work appears in a range of publication venues with multiple contributions to:

  • PLoS ONE
  • The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
  • Austrian Biographical Dictionary (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
  • Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online (Institut für kunst- und musikhistorische Forschungen der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften)
  • Journal of Mathematical Economics

Best Publications

  • A Brain Gain with a Brain Drain

    Oded Stark;Christian Helmenstein;Alexia Prskawetz

  • Human capital depletion, human capital formation, and migration: a blessing or a “curse”?

    Oded Stark;Oded Stark;Christian Helmenstein;Alexia Prskawetz

  • Population aging and future carbon emissions in the United States

    Michael G. Dalton;Brian O'Neill;Brian O'Neill;Alexia Prskawetz;Leiwen Jiang

  • Fertility and women's employment reconsidered: A macro-level time-series analysis for developed countries, 1960-2000

    Henriette Engelhardt;Tomas Kögel;Alexia Prskawetz

  • On the Changing Correlation Between Fertility and Female Employment over Space and Time

    Henriette Engelhardt;Alexia Prskawetz

  • Agricultural Productivity Growth and Escape from the Malthusian Trap

    Tomas Kögel;Alexia Prskawetz

  • Autonomy or Conservative Adjustment?:The Effect of Public Policies and EducationalAttainment on Third Births in Austria, 1975-96

    Jan M. Hoem;Alexia Prskawetz;Gerda R. Neyer

  • Are Individuals’ Desired Family Sizes Stable? Evidence from West German Panel Data

    Frank W. Heiland;Alexia Prskawetz;Warren C. Sanderson;Warren C. Sanderson

  • Agent based computational demography: using simulation to improve our understanding of demographic behaviour

    F.C. Billari;A. Prskawetz

  • The past and future of knowledge-based growth

    Holger Strulik;Klaus Prettner;Alexia Prskawetz;Alexia Prskawetz

  • Do siblings’ fertility decisions influence each other?

    Torkild Hovde Lyngstad;Alexia Prskawetz;Alexia Prskawetz

  • Ageing, productivity and wages in Austria

    Bernhard Mahlberg;Inga Freund;Jesús Crespo Cuaresma;Alexia Prskawetz;Alexia Prskawetz

  • Agent-Based Computational Modelling: Applications in Demography, Social, Economic and Environmental Sciences

    Francesco C. Billari;Alexia Prskawetz;Thomas Fent

  • Social involvement, behavioural risks and cognitive functioning among older people

    Henriette Engelhardt;Isabella Buber;Vegard Skirbekk;Alexia Prskawetz

  • Union instability as an engine of fertility? A microsimulation model for France.

    Elizabeth Thomson;Maria Winkler-Dworak;Martin Spielauer;Alexia Prskawetz

  • Preference Theory and Low Fertility: A Comparative Perspective

    Agnese Vitali;Francesco C. Billari;Alexia Prskawetz;Alexia Prskawetz;Maria Rita Testa

  • A model on the escape from the Malthusian trap

    Gunter Steinmann;Alexia Prskawetz;Gustav Feichtinger

  • Agent-Based Computational Modelling

    Francesco C. Billari;Thomas Fent;Alexia Prskawetz;Jürgen Scheffran

  • Austria: Persistent low fertility since the mid-1980s

    Alexia Prskawetz;Tomás Sobotka;Isabella Buber;Henriette Engelhardt

  • Education rather than age structure brings demographic dividend.

    Wolfgang Lutz;Jesus Crespo Cuaresma;Jesus Crespo Cuaresma;Endale Kebede;Alexia Prskawetz;Alexia Prskawetz

  • Conceptualizing socio-hydrological drought processes: The case of the Maya collapse

    Linda Kuil;Gemma Carr;Alberto Viglione;Alexia Prskawetz;Alexia Prskawetz

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Prettner
Klaus Prettner Vienna University of Economics and Business
Francesco C. Billari
Francesco C. Billari Bocconi University
Warren C. Sanderson
Warren C. Sanderson Stony Brook University
Vegard Skirbekk
Vegard Skirbekk Columbia University
Peter M. Kort
Peter M. Kort Tilburg University
Jesus Crespo Cuaresma
Jesus Crespo Cuaresma Vienna University of Economics and Business
Wolfgang Lutz
Wolfgang Lutz University of Trier
Oded Stark
Oded Stark University of Bonn
Jürgen Scheffran
Jürgen Scheffran Universität Hamburg

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