Hans van Kippersluis and Niels Rietveld obtain Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network grant
The European Commission has granted research fellows Hans van Kippersluis and Niels Rietveld with a 2.9 million euros Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action – Doctoral Network consortium grant in the Horizon Europe programme.
The objective of Doctoral Networks is to implement doctoral programmes by partnerships of organisations from different sectors across Europe, to train highly skilled doctoral candidates.
The European Social Science Genetics Network (ESSGN) project brings together seven academic beneficiaries with a shared interest in social science genetics. For instance, in incorporating genetic information to improve our understanding of age-old questions in the social sciences, such as the origins of inequality, the ‘nature versus nurture’ debate, and the extent to which the interplay between environments and genes is important in shaping individuals’ lives. The ESSGN programme of research provides novel and exciting opportunities to social scientists to deepen our understanding of how inequalities in life chances are shaped.
Hans van Kippersluis is a professor of Applied Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has used both theoretical and empirical approaches to study topics in health and human capital formation. He is currently the academic lead for the Erasmus Initiative Smarter Choices for Better Health, where inequality is one of the focus areas.
Niels Rietveld is Associate Professor at the department of Applied Economics and executive director of the Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology. His primary fields of research are economics and human biology and the economics of entrepreneurship. Niels is presently working on his ERC Starting Grant project about Genes, Policy and Social Inequality (GEPSI).
Source: Erasmus School of Economics