Robert Dur
LISS Grant 2020 for project Policy Experimentation Aversion by research fellow Robert Dur and Benedetta Ricci (both Erasmus School of Economics). Via the grant, the researchers will get access to free panel time. The LISS panel, managed by CentERdata, gives researchers access to survey data from about 7,000 respondents from approximately 4,500 households.
Bas Donkers, Benedict Dellaert
Netspar has awarded a grant to Bas Donkers and Benedict Dellaert of the Erasmus School of Economics, to investigate and support individuals’ pension decision making when pension investment outcomes are uncertain.
Niels Rietveld
Niels Rietveld, Associate Professor at Erasmus School of Economics and Executive Director of the Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology (EURIBEB), has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. Niels Rietveld received the grant for his project "Genes, Policy, and Social Inequality". Many important indicators of social status (such as one’s level of education, occupation, and income) have been shown to be moderately heritable, meaning that a part of the variation in social status can be explained by genetic differences across population members. Niels Rietveld (with his co-authors) has been able to identify, for the first time, specific genetic variants that are robustly associated with such an indicator, namely educational attainment (Rietveld et al., 2013, Science). By methodologically advancing the estimation of the interaction between genes and environments, this research project aims to settle two long lasting debates in social science genetics. First, Rietveld aims to show how heritability studies –despite earlier firm rejections of this position– can be informative for policies aiming to reduce social inequalities. Second, he will assess the critique that social science genetics attributes effects to genes which should be attributed to the environments individuals live in.
Martijn de Jong
Martijn de Jong, Professor of Marketing Research at Erasmus University Rotterdam is the winner of the 2020 Global Marketing SIG Award for his article “A Global Investigation into the Constellation of Consumer Attitudes Toward Global and Local Products.”
Stefan Stremersch
Stefan Stremersch (Erasmus School of Economics) is the winner of the EMAC Distinguished Marketing Scholar Award 2020. The two main criteria for the award are: (1) outstanding marketing scholarship as reflected in extensive, impactful research contributions, and (2) outstanding contributions to the European Marketing Academy.