A grant ($ 390,000) has been awarded to Pauline Rossi
Pauline Rossi
Pauline Rossi (Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam) has received a grant by the Templeton Foundation for her Burkina Faso Family Aspirations Study (co-PI).
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An ERC Starting Grant (€ 1,500,000) has been awarded to Aurélien Baillon
Aurélien Baillon
Aurélien Baillon, Professor of economics of uncertainty at the Erasmus School of Economics, received a Starting Grant of 1.5 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC). Aurélien Baillon received the grant for the project “Bayesian markets for unverifiable truths”. In this project he will develop a new approach to get correct answers to questions that are otherwise unverifiable, e.g. concerning one’s happiness or the estimated likelihood of dramatic fatal events. As such the results of the project have a potential beyond economics, in a broad range of social sciences.
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An Advanced ERC grant (€ 1,500,000) has been awarded to Erik Verhoef
Erik Verhoef
An Advanced Grant was awarded to Erik Verhoef, Professor in Spatial Economics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, by the European Research Council for his project "Optimizing Policies for Transport: accounting for Industrial Organisation in Network markets".
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An ERC Starting Grant (€ 1,500,000) has been awarded to Niels Rietveld
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.
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An ERC Consolidator Grant (€ 2,000,000) has been awarded to Peter Koudijs
Peter Koudijs
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Peter Koudijs, Professor of Financial Economics at the Erasmus School of Economics a Consolidator Grant for his project "One of Mans’s greatest inventions? Historical insights into limited Liability".
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An ERC Consolidator Grant (€ 1,870,135) has been awarded to Philipp Koellinger
Philipp Koellinger
A Consolidator Grant has been awarded by the European Research Council to Philipp Koellinger (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for the project "The molecular genetic architecture of educational attainment and its significance for cognitive health".
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An ERC Consolidator Grant (€ 2,000,000) has been awarded to Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Consolidator Grant to Shaul Shalvi, Professor of Behavioural Ethics at the Amsterdam School of Economics (UvA) for his research project "Responsible sharing: Paving the path for transparent trust". Project description: The collaborative economy is estimated to add €160-€572 billion to the EU economy. Faced with blurry definitions in this emerging market, regulators use a top-down approach and introduce regulations that often fail to consider users’ behaviour. Although considerable knowledge on top-down regulatory solutions for the collaborative economy is accumulating, little is known about the bottom-up psychological factors driving the collaborative economy users’ behaviour. Online platforms rely and promote trust between users and service providers. For responsible sharing, however, trust is necessary but not sufficient. Only when trust is encouraged transparently can users share responsibly. TRUSTPATH will assess, if: (1) users are aware of, or motivated to learn about, the side effects of trade; (2) platforms’ promotion of trust increases users’ information neglect; and (3) transparent environments reduce information neglect and increase responsible sharing. Building on my expertise on trust and cooperation, and using insights from psychology, management, and economics, I will develop and test a novel psychological theory of how people use the collaborative economy: Transparency Based Trust theory (TBT). TBT’s novel hypothesis suggests trust encouraged without transparency leads users to neglect the negative side effects trade has on others. TRUSTPATH innovates by developing a novel methodology (the collaborative economy game) and using cutting-edge technologies (large-scale experiments). Support for TBT implies a major step forward in the systematic understanding of the collaborative economy in the social sciences, and the psychological mechanisms underlying users’ behaviour on platforms like Airbnb, Uber, and others. TRUSTPATH will contribute to establish a new field of study: the psychology of the collaborative economy; inform policymakers seeking to regulate the collaborative economy; and inform companies seeking to promote responsible sharing among users.
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An ERC Starting Grant (€ 1,500,000) has been awarded to Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi, Associate Professor at the Amsterdam School of Economics (UvA) received a Starting Grant of 1.5 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC). The Grant was awarded for this project "At the roots of corruption: a behavioral ethics approach". In this project Shaul Shalvi studies negative aspects of human cooperation. For many years, human cooperation has been praised as beneficial in organizational and personal settings. However, while the benefits of cooperation are clear, very little is known about its possible negative aspects. Such negative aspects include the potential emergence of unethical conduct among cooperating partners, or as termed here – corrupt collaboration. Such joint unethical efforts, benefiting (directly or indirectly) one or more of the involved parties, occur in business, sports, and even academia. Corrupt collaboration emerges when one party bends ethical rules (here: lie) to set the stage for another party to further bend ethical rules and get the job done, that is, secure personal profit based on joint unethical acts. We propose that corrupt collaborations most commonly occur when all involved parties gain from the corrupt behavior. The current proposal is aimed at unfolding the roots and nature of corrupt collaborations; their existence, the psychological and biological processes underlying them, and the settings most likely to make corrupt collaboration emerge and spread. Accordingly, the information gathered in the current proposal has the potential to change the commonly held conceptions regarding the unidimensional – positive – nature of cooperation. It will help create a comprehensive understanding of cooperation and, specifically, when it should be encouraged or, alternatively, monitored.
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An ERC Starting Grant (€ 1,500,000) has been awarded to Stephanie van Hinke
Stephanie von Hinke
Stephanie von Hinke, Professor of Health Economics at Erasmus School of Economics, has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council, to work on the project "Developmental Origins: exploring the Nature-Nurture Interplay".
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An ERC Starting Grant (€ 1,335,536) has been awarded to Thomas Buser
Thomas Buser
Thomas Buser, Associate Professor at the Amsterdam School of Economics (UvA) has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council for his project “Competition, Time Pressure, Public Speaking and Multitasking: The Role of Willingness and Ability to Cope with Pressure in Explaining Individual Differences and Inequality in Career Outcomes”.
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Netspar has awarded a grant to Stefan Hochguertel
Stefan Hochguertel
Stefan Hochguertel received a Netspar grant for the research project "The effect of macroprudential policies on pensions and retirement preparation".
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Roger Prudon has received an NWO Rubicon grant
Roger Prudon
Roger has been awarded the Rubicon grant for his research project 'Treating the untreated: Reforms of the Dutch mental healthcare system'.
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Anne Gielen awarded an NWO Vici grant
Anne Gielen
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded research fellow Anne Gielen of the Erasmus School of Economics a prestigious Vici grant. The grant, of of up to €1.5 million, will enable Anne to further consolidate and expand her research group over the next five years through her project, ‘Making Money Matter: Rethinking the Design of Income Support to Break the Cycle of Intergenerational Poverty.’
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NWO awarded an Open Competition grant to Eddy van Doorslaer
Eddy van Doorslaer
An NWO grant in the Domain Social Sciences and Humanities has been awarded to Eddy van Doorslaer, Erasmus School of Economics, for the research project "Better choices for better long-term care".
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The 2024 H. Gregg Lewis Prize has been awarded to Nadine Ketel
Nadine Ketel
The prestigious H. Gregg Lewis Prize for the best paper published in the Journal of Labor Economics during 2022–23 has been awarded to research fellow and alumna Nadine Ketel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and co-author Anna Bindler (University of Cologne, Germany) for “Scaring or Scarring? Labor Market Effects of Criminal Victimization,” which appeared in the October 2022 issue of the journal.
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Mohammad Rezazade Mehrizi and Wendy Günther receive NWO research grant
Mohammad Rezazade Mehrizi, Wendy Günther
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Mohammad Rezazade Mehrizi and Wendy Günther (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) a research grant of one million euro. With the grant, they will be able to investigate how novel algorithmic technologies can be applied in medical diagnosis through collaborative learning among stakeholders.
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NWO research grant for multidisciplinary team including Vladimir Karamychev
Vladimir Karamychev
A multidisciplinary research team, including fellow Vladimir Karamychev (Erasmus School of Economics), has received a research grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant is 500,000 euro worth and awarded to study the effect of energy transition on energy consumption and fuel poverty of low income households. In the project, which goes under the acronym BELOpens external (Behaviour, Energy transition, Low income), a consortium of three universities and four social housing providers participate.
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Andrea Naghi has been awarded a Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowship (€ 170,000)
Andrea Naghi
Andrea Naghi, Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Economics received the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship for her proposal ‘Competing Forecasts’.
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Bastian Ravesteijn has been awarded an EU Marie Skodowska-Curie COFUND LEaDing Fellowship
Bastian Ravesteijn
Bastian Ravesteijn has been awarded a LEaDing fellowship for two years. The LEaDing Fellows Programme provides 90 researchers from all over the world who recently obtained a PhD, with the opportunity to gain two years of work experience in the challenging, internationally acclaimed and multidisciplinary environment offered by Leiden University, Leiden University Medical Centre, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus Medical Centre and Delft University of Technology.
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Shaul Shalvi has been awarded the Jane Beattie Scientific Recognition Award
Shaul Shalvi
Shaul Shalvi (Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam) has received Jane Beattie Scientific Recognition Award. The biennial Jane Beattie Award is awarded by the European Association for Decision Making, in recognition of “innovation in decision research”. Shalvi received the award for his innovative research in ethical decision making.