Today is William Foley’s last day with us, and we want to express our deep gratitude for all his contributions to the EFFORT project. William joined the project at IC3JM in September 2022 as a postdoctoral researcher, and his incorporation has been a real boon to our work. William is Read more…
The official funding period for the EFFORT project came to an end last week, on the final day of February. Over the course of this period, the project employed and collaborated with almost forty researchers, held several workshops and a conference, and so far published four peer-reviewed articles and a handbook Read more…
The EFFORT project is officially over, but this doesn’t mean that the work has ended. During the next couple of months, we’ll still be working on the final report, and our beloved outgoing project manager, Laura García Llamas, will be of crucial support in this process. Indeed, Laura has been a Read more…
Jonas Radl and William Foley both participated at the Annual Conference of Experimental Sociology, that took place in Madrid last week (link to conference website). Manuel Valdés, EFFORT project associate, also presented work based on EFFORT data. Jonas took part in the round table on experimental sociology, where he discussed Read more…
Nota: en la parte inferior de la página encontrará una grabación en vídeo de este evento. El proyecto EFFORT organizará el viernes 16 de junio, de 16.00 a 18.00h, un taller de política (en castellano) sobre el tema “Esfuerzo cognitivo y desigualdad educativa”. Contará con una mesa redonda de expertos Read more…
We’re pleased to announce a call for papers for the ECSR thematic conference “Effort and Social Inequality”. Organised by the Carlos III-Juan March Institute of Social Sciences, it will take place in Madrid from the 14th to the 16th of June 2023. The conference will provide a platform for scholars Read more…
After four years of working in the EFFORT project, Alberto Palacios Abad is moving on. He has been an absolute mainstay of the team and essential to the project’s success. A few weeks ago, Alberto successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “The prize for hard work: effort, educational attainment and Read more…
The Carlos III-Juan March Institute of Social Sciences will hold a conference on effort and social inequality, to take place in Madrid from the 14th to the 16th of June 2023. The conference will showcase the results of the EFFORT project, and will also provide a platform for scholars to Read more…
As we are wrapping up the academic year, we reflect back on everything that we have accomplished. During this year we managed to finish school experiments in Madrid and Berlin despite the difficulties due to the pandemic. It was an intense but rewarding experience to work with children in schools. Read more…
Would you like to be part of the EFFORT team? We are excited to announce two 1-year postdoctoral positions within the research project “Effort and Social Inequality: Advancing Measurement and Understanding Parental Origin Effects” (EFFORT). The selected applicants will become members of the EFFORT project team at the Carlos III-Juan March Read more…