Bastian Ravesteijn has been awarded an NWO VENI grant (€ 250,000).
Bastian Ravesteijn
NWO awarded a VENI grant to Bastian Ravesteijn, Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Economics, for his project “Improving access to mental health care”.
Bastian Ravesteijn
NWO awarded a VENI grant to Bastian Ravesteijn, Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Economics, for his project “Improving access to mental health care”.
Chen Li
A VENI grant has been awarded to Chen Li, an Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Economics, for the project 'Trapped in Gender Stereotypes?" The project addresses the topic of gender equality: invisible stereotypes keep holding people back. This project uses techniques from behavioral economics to reduce stereotypes. It delivers a new measure of stereotypes and the resulting welfare costs, identifies biases that trap people in stereotypes, and provides new inequality-reducing tools.
Chen Li
Assistant Professor Chen Li of Erasmus School of Economics has obtained an EUR Fellowship for her research project "Identifying and Reducing Biases under Social Uncertainty". With the EUR Fellowship Erasmus University Rotterdam is supporting talented researchers at the early stage of their academic career. The fellowship consists of a grant of € 135,000, to carry out research for a maximum of two years.
Coen van de Kraats
Awarded by NWO in the category Dutch National Research Agenda - Idea Generator, for his project "Origins of the Opportunity Gap: Evidence from Dutch Administrative Data on Childhood Health and Development".
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".
Elbert Dijkgraaf
Elbert Dijkgraaf (Erasmus School of Economics) has won the Energy Journal Campbell Watkins Best Paper Award, together with Emiel Maasland. The prize was awarded for their paper on the effectiveness of feed-in tariffs in the development of solar photovoltaics. The IAEE’s Energy Economics Education Foundation instituted a Best Paper Award for the paper designated as the most outstanding of the papers published in The Energy Journal the previous year
Eric Koomen, Henri de Groot
VerDuS SURF Pop Up-subsidie awarded to Henri de Groot and Eric Koomen, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit. VerDuS is the Dutch acronym for Connecting Sustainable Cities. Within this NWO knowledge initiative VerDuS, scientific researchers in collaboration with experts from the field develop knowledge to respond to issues such as urbanisation, spatial planning, mobility and transport.
Erik Plug
Erik Plug, Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam, received an Open Competition Grant in the NWO Domain Social Sciences and Humanities, for his research project "The different costs of motherhood".
Jan Stoop
NWO awarded a VIDI grant to Jan Stoop (Erasmus School of Economics) for his project "Measuring poverty with envelopes". This project deepens our knowledge on poverty using novel field experiments.
Shaul Shalvi
An NWO VIDI grant has been awarded to Shaul Shalvi (Amsterdam School of Economics, UvA), for his project "Sharing responsibly on the on-demand economy".
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.
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.
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”.
Thomas Buser
Thomas Buser, Tinbergen Institute alumnus and research fellow ranked first in Dutch ‘Economentop 40’ 2019.
Wendy Janssens
Research grant from the Amsterdam Public Health – Global Health group (€ 10,000) to organize an international brainstorm workshop on “Maternal health and digital technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa”
Eric Bartelsman
To mark the 50th anniversary of Jan Tinbergen’s Nobel Prize, a series of conversations between Nobel Laureates and Dutch policy makers was set up, led by Eric Bartelsman (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Esther-Mirjam Sent (Radboud University). The resulting publication appeared in the series KVS Preadviezen.