News and Events

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 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 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 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 Read more…

We are sad to announce that our long-time colleague Simona Demel has left the EFFORT project, seeking new horizons. We have been very lucky to have Simona on our team for the last 3 years. Since she became the first Read more…

We are excited to announce a new opening in the EFFORT Project. To help with our revamped lab experiments in Madrid , we would like to hire a research associate from mid September 2021 until the end of December 2021 (extension Read more…

After some difficult months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are happy to report that we are back on track with the experiments! Last week we achieved an important milestone, reaching 25 dyads of parent-child that have visited our pupillometry Read more…

We are happy to announce that  the Special Issue “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Effort: Measurement, Causes and Consequences” edited by Jonas Radl and Luis Miller has now been published in the American Behavioral Scientist. The Issue addresses three dimensions of research Read more…

Alberto will be a visiting researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Sciences Center in the research unit Effort and Social Inequality from March until June 2021. He will work on his thesis and help the Berlin team to set up Read more…