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…
We are excited to announce several bits of news from the EFFORT project: First of all, we have successfully completed the school experiments in Berlin and in Madrid. After an intense period of school visits we have reached the target sample of participants on both sites. Our work with the Read more…
During the last days we had some changes in the composition of the team. First of all, we are sad to announce that our colleague Paula Apascaritei has left the EFFORT project. She has worked over the last two years for the project and we have been very lucky to have Read more…
Patricia and Simon have joined EFFORT to help us in our data collection in Berlin. Patricia obtained a master’s degree in Behavioural Science research from Radboud University in the Netherlands and is an Erasmus intern for the project. Simon is currently doing a Master in Social Sciences at the Humboldt University Read more…