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…
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 hire of the team in the spring of 2018, she 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 possible). For more information about this position, see this link. 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 lab at the UNED in Madrid. During their visit, both Read more…