2026 Axel Börsch-Supan: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	65	602	544	19	17	427	18584

Research.com Recognitions

2000 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Economics and Empirical Social Sciences

Overview

Axel Börsch-Supan is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Germany. Their research primarily spans health professions and social sciences, with a concentration in general health professions, demography, health, economics and econometrics, and accounting.

The scientist's work explores a range of topics including:

Global Health Care Issues
Retirement, Disability, and Employment
Health disparities and outcomes
German Economic Analysis & Policies
Employment and Welfare Studies
Social Policies and Healthcare Reform
Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis

Axel Börsch-Supan has contributed to multiple publication venues. Frequent venues include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
mediaTUM - the media and publications repository of the Technical University Munich (Technical University Munich)
Alzheimer s & Dementia
Deep Blue (University of Michigan)
Journal of Pensions Economics and Finance

Recent publications feature a variety of topics and are outlined below with their respective publication years and venues:

Collecting survey data among the 50+ population during the COVID-19 outbreak: The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), 2020, mediaTUM - the media and publications repository of the Technical University Munich (Technical University Munich)
Targets missed: three case studies exploiting the linked SHARE-RV data, 2021, Journal of Pensions Economics and Finance
Big data at work: Age and labor productivity in the service sector, 2021, The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
Understanding the Aging Workforce: Defining a Research Agenda, 2022, Academy of Management Proceedings
Gender differences in countries' adaptation to societal ageing: an international cross-sectional comparison, 2021, The Lancet Healthy Longevity

Frequent co-authors with whom Axel Börsch-Supan collaborates include:

Johannes Rausch
John W. Rowe
Tabea Bucher-Koenen
Irene Ferrari
Nicolas Goll

Among recognitions, Axel Börsch-Supan is noted for receiving the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften award in 2000, acknowledging contributions in economics and empirical social sciences.

Best Publications

Data Resource Profile: The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

Axel Börsch-Supan;Martina Brandt;Christian Hunkler;Thorsten Kneip

2515
Citations
Smooth unbiased multivariate probability simulators for maximum likelihood estimation of limited dependent variable models

Axel Börsch-Supan;Vassilis A. Hajivassiliou

652
Citations
Would you like to shrink the welfare state? A survey of European citizens

Tito Boeri;Axel Börsch-Supan;Guido Tabellini

616
Citations
Aging, pension reform, and capital flows : a multi-country simulation model

Axel H. Börsch-Supan;Alexander Ludwig;Joachim Winter

615
Citations
Quality of work, well-being, and intended early retirement of older employees: baseline results from the SHARE Study.

Johannes Siegrist;Morten Wahrendorf;Olaf von dem Knesebeck;Hendrik Jürges

546
Citations
Labor Market Effects of Population Aging

Axel Börsch-Supan

517
Citations
Extended Framework for Modeling Choice Behavior

Moshe Ben-Akiva;Denis Bolduc;Philippe Delquie;Tommy Gärling

479
Citations
Incentive effects of social security on labor force participation: evidence in Germany and across Europe

Axel Börsch-Supan

428
Citations
Pension reform - issues and prospects for Non-Financial Defined Contribution (NDC) schemes

Robert Holzmann;Salvador Valdes-Prieto;Ingemar Svensson;Inta Vanovska

392
Citations
SHARE Wave 4: Innovations & Methodology

Frederic Malter;Axel Börsch-Supan

318
Citations
The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

Axel Börsch-Supan;Axel Börsch-Supan;Barbara Schaan

318
Citations
Health, Children, and Elderly Living Arrangements: A Multiperiod-Multinomial Probit Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity and Autocorrelated Errors

Axel Borsch-Supan;Vassilis Hajivassiliou;Laurence Kotlikoff;John N. Morris

308
Citations
A new comprehensive and international view on ageing: introducing the 'Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe'.

Axel Börsch-Supan;Karsten Hank;Hendrik Jürges

304
Citations
An Applied Econometricians' View of Empirical Corporate Governance Studies

Axel Börsch-Supan;F. Jens Köke

297
Citations
Social Security and Declining Labor-Force Participation in Germany

Axel Börsch-Supan;Reinhold Schnabel

265
Citations
Would you Like to Reform the Pension System? The Opinions of European Citizens

Tito Boeri;Axel Börsch-Supan;Guido Tabellini

255
Citations
First Results from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (2004-2007) : Starting the longitudinal dimension

Axel Börsch-Supan;Agar Brugiavini;Hendrik Jürges;Arie Kapteyn

245
Citations
Productivity and age: Evidence from work teams at the assembly line

Axel Börsch-Supan;Axel Börsch-Supan;Matthias Weiss

221
Citations
Life cycle savings and consumption constraints

Axel Börsch-Supan;Konrad Stahl

204
Citations
Social security and retirement in germany

Axel Borsch-Supan;Reinhold Schnabel

183
Citations
An Applied Econometricians' View of Empirical Corporate Governance Studies

Jens F. Koke;Axel H. Börsch-Supan

110
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Joachim Winter Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Hendrik Jürges University of Wuppertal

Laurence J. Kotlikoff Boston University

Karsten Hank University of Cologne

Michael D. Hurd RAND Corporation

Guido Tabellini Bocconi University

Guglielmo Weber University of Padua

Juergen von Hagen University of Bonn

Tito Boeri Bocconi University

Howard Litwin Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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