Eszter received a Rubicon grant by NWO for her research project ‘Quotas and beyond: Using insights from behavioural economics to achieve gender balance in organizations’. Are quotas efficient in closing the gender gap at the top of corporate hierarchies? The project investigates the unintended negative consequences of gender quotas and proposes alternative mechanisms to promote gender balance in organizations.
Eszter is a PhD student since 2012 at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the UvA. She is an alumna of the TI MPhil program (2012, cum laude). Her research interests include economics of organizations, experimental economics, behavioral economics. She is researching projects ‘Does Relative Grading Help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom’ (Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper, 2014-116/III) and ‘Gender norms and the willingness to compete’. University of Amsterdam. Supervisors are TI fellows Randolph Sloof and Mirjam van Praag.