As a senior researcher at the Austrian Institute for Family Studies (OIF) Mag. Georg Wernhart conducts empirical descriptive and econometric projects focusing on the socio-economic situation of families, women's employment and its forms, generational exchange relationships, and the evaluation of individual family policy measures.

Research Focus and Projects

• Poverty avoidance and equalisation of opportunities for children from low-income and large families through family-related cash transfers. Working Paper No. 85
• Making ends meet. Effects of family-related transfers and tax relief on the income situation of families in Austria. Working Paper No. 84
• Family forms in Austria