Author: Jonas Radl

German media coverage on EFFORT

In the wake of the publication of the core results from the EFFORT project in the American Sociological Review, there has been a string of media coverage in the German media, highlighting key insights and policy implications for a general audience:

 

 

EFFORT flagship paper published in ASR

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

The key result: socioeconomic gaps in effort favor privileged children but are modest in size and can be substantially reduced with incentives.

Read the project’s flagship paper here. 

Studies examining how effort varies by gender, birth month, and parenting style

A first set of papers using the full data collected in the EFFORT project has been published over the last months. These papers analyze, respectively, how cognitive effort is associated with gender, birth month, and parenting styles:

Apascaritei, Paula, Jonas Radl & Madeline Swarr (2024): “Material incentives moderate gender differences in cognitive effort among children”, Learning and Individual Differences, Volume 114, 102494. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2024.102494.

Radl, Jonas & Manuel T. Valdés (2024): “Month of Birth and Cognitive Effort: A Laboratory Study of the Relative Age Effect among Fifth Graders”, Social Forces, 101(1): 153–172. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soae023.

Foley, William & Jonas Radl (2024): “Parenting practices and children’s cognitive effort: A laboratory study”, Journal of Early Adolescence, Published April 26, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1177/02724316241250062.

More studies using our unique data are in the pipeline. Stay tuned!