We are very happy to announce that Louis Klobes is joining the team! He obtained a B.Sc. in Business Mathematics with a focus on economics and has worked with various institutions in international cooperation and development in Germany and Latin America. Currently, he is doing a Master in International and Read more…
We are hiring a student assistant in Berlin to help us out with the EFFORT project. The deadline to apply is February 2, 2020. For more information, please see this link: https://wzb.eu/en/node/66165 Please spread the word!
As the first semester of 2019/2020 comes to an end, we are happy to report that the data collection in Madrid has gone very well. It has been an intense semester, but we have approximately half of our desired sample size already. Overall, the children and the teachers seem to Read more…
Alicia and Isabel have joined EFFORT in order to help us in our data collection phase. Alicia is a second-year student in the Master of Social Sciences at the Carlos III-Juan March Institute of Social Sciences, where she holds the Juan March Servera Scholarship. Isabel is currently in her last Read more…
We are very excited about the new addition to our team! Before doing her PhD in Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence, Lea studied Social Sciences at Humboldt University in Berlin. Her research interests include the fields of family sociology and social stratification. Lea contributes to Read more…
We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new team member, Iñigo! Iñigo is about to complete a Double Master in Telecommunications and Telematics at Carlos III University of Madrid. He studied his bachelor in Telecommunications at the Public University of Navarra and Vrije University of Brussels in an Read more…
A warm welcome to our new team member, Paula! Paula is a researcher for the EFFORT project. Before completing her PhD in Management at IESE Business School, she studied Economics at Carlos III University of Madrid. Her research interests include social inequality in the labor market and strategic human capital Read more…
Would you like to be part of the EFFORT team? We are excited to announce two new openings. First of all, we would like to hire a research technician to work for us until the end of October 2019, to help us with data collection in Madrid. For more information about Read more…
Thank you to all who attended our event, the Interdisciplinary Symposium on Cognitive Effort, on February 4th and 5th. A special thanks goes to the distinguished speakers: Thomas Dohmen, Klarita Gërxhani, Sebastiaan Mathôt, Luis Miller, Javier Polavieja and Heike Solga, who provided us with incredible feedback on the EFFORT project. Read more…
We are very happy to welcome Sofía Gabino, our newest team member! Sofía is about to complete a Double Degree in Political Science and Sociology at Carlos III University of Madrid. She has also done part of her studies at Sciences Po University in Paris and at the University of Read more…