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…
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…
We are pleased to share with you the program for the Interdisciplinary Symposium on Cognitive Effort, which will take place on February 4th and 5th, 2019 in building 18 on the Getafe campus of Carlos III University of Madrid. The presentations given by the distinguished speakers on the first day Read more…
Today, Jonas Radl was awarded the Julián Marías prize for distinguished researchers under 40 in the Madrid region for 2018, shared with Enrique Gandía Pérez. At the ceremony, which was held at the Royal Academy of Natural, Physical and Exact Sciences, the Regional Minister of Research and Education for the Read more…
Organization is underway for our “Symposium on Cognitive Effort”, which will be held on February 4th and 5th, 2019, at Carlos III University of Madrid. The symposium shall provide a forum for the exchange of ideas among selected experts from the various fields that are relevant to the project theme Read more…