EFFORT Project

El principal resultado es que los y las escolares de familias privilegiadas muestran un mayor esfuerzo cognitivo que los de entornos desfavorecidos, sobre todo cuando no existe recompensa. Si no me va a servir para nada, ¿para qué me voy a esforzar? 🤷

Key result: socioeconomic gaps in effort favor privileged children but are modest in size and can be substantially reduced with incentives. Read the flagship paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00… (2/2)

The EFFORT team knows that hard work pays off. Our project began in 2018, and the central findings have now been published in the American Sociological Review! (1/2)

We're excited to share a new Working Paper entitled "Good Grades for Hard Work? A Lab-in-the-Field Study of Effort and Educational Inequality", co-authored between @KarlosJ89, Alberto and Jonas: econpapers.repec.org/paper/firecono…

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- Up to 200,000€ in research funding - Reduced teaching load (max. 100 contact hours/year) Eligibility: - PhD obtained between Jan 1, 2015 and Dec 31, 2022 - At least 2 of the last 5 years employed full-time outside Spain

The Department of Social Sciences at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) is looking to sponsor candidates for the César Nombela Program. Position Details: - 5-year contract - Salary: ~40,000€/year (years 1–3), ~47,000€/year (years 4–5)

Melinda talked about their findings and their implications at our online roundtable where we discussed the policy relevance of the EFFORT Project from the perspective of the German education system youtube.com/watch?v=fSStuH…

Congratulations to Melinda Erdmann from @WZB_Berlin and co-authors for publishing this fascinating study in Sociology of Education! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

We find that parental support is a strong driver of personality differences between adolescent siblings, although this effect wanes in early adulthood. (3/3)

Our evidence from Germany shows that the personality of siblings differs a lot in adolescence. Curiously, children from the same family become more similar in early adulthood. (2/3)

📰🚨 Pleased to see our new paper “Parental support and diversity in sibling personality” published in Advances in Life Course Research! 👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 (1/3) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Und hier die weitere Dokumentation der Bilanztagung, inklusive schmuckes "graphic recording": isa-muenster.de/veranstaltunge…

Hier ist der Videomitschnitt des Vortrags mit dem Titel "Wurzeln der Bildungsungleichheit: Das Zusammenspiel von strukturellen Barrieren und individueller Anstrengung": vimeo.com/1027357841/3a6…

In June, Jonas gave a keynote lecture in Duisburg at the final conference of the research project "Constellations of Resilience among Children" (KoReKi) carried out by TH Köln and ISA Münster.

work hard 🧑‍🌾, play hard 🤾‍♀️ (esfuerzo = effort in Spanish 🇪🇸)

New #inequality paper! I find that rising inequality in the U.S. links with wider socio-economic gaps in what -and how much- economic support parents give to young adults 👵👴➡️👨‍🦱 Very happy to see this out in @SF_Journal: doi.org/10.1093/sf/soa… @uoessps @QStepEdinburgh

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📢 Calling all scholars in #SocialStratification & #SocialMobility! Join us for the 2025 RC28 Spring Conference " at @unimi on March 25-27. 📝 Submit abstracts from Oct 4 to Nov 7 here: rc28milan2025.com #RC28 #Sociology #Inequality #Education

PUBLICATION DAY📢 New paper out with great Heike Solga. We examine the gender gap in STEM persistence after graduation in Spain. Is it larger in moments of economic downturn?📉 Is it larger for low-SES individuals?💰 Discover it here👇 #OA doi.org/10.1016/j.ssre…