Is the welfare state biased in favour of elderly people? This article analyses the financial sustainability of the current system.

How can the experience of the developed world help other regions of the planet that are in earlier phases of demographic transition?

Some 23.1% of Spain’s GDP is assigned to programmes for the care of elderly people, health, unemployment, disability, family, social exclusion and housing.

In Spain, 10% of women perform care work, by far exceeding the 5% of male carers.

Some 34.8 of grandparents in Spain regularly care for their grandchildren, a figure much higher than the European average.

Between 2008 and 2018, benefits for the elderly increased, whereas benefits for families did not improve.

Contradicting a fairly widespread idea, delaying exit from the labour market does not reduce youth employment, but could actually boost it.

Child support benefits improve the economic situation of families and appear to be positive for increasing fertility rates. How can they be designed with efficiency?

The welfare state is supported by an intergenerational contract that proposes a set of tacit consensus agreements between different generations. What form must this contract take in order to be sustainable?

Are benefits for supporting reconciliation designed to boost women’s labour participation effective, or do they lead to an increase in the wage gap?