Work in Progress
- Polluting student test performance: school-based evidence on the adverse effects of air pollution (with María Rubio-Cabañez) [Link to Working Paper]
- Good Grades for Hard Work? A Lab-in-the-field Study of Effort and Educational Inequality (with Carlos J. Gil-Hernández & Alberto Palacios-Abad) [Link to Working Paper]
- Better hardworking or smart? How parents’ educational expectations depend on children’s effort and intelligence (with William Foley) (Link to Working Paper)
- Do the children of immigrants try harder? Immigrant optimism and effortful behavior among fifth-grade students (with Alessandro Ferrara, Bram Lancee & Madeline Swarr)
- The single-parent effect on cognitive effort among fifth-graders in Berlin and Madrid (with Miguel Requena & Madeline Swarr)
- Feedback Effects or Small Sample-Size Theater? Regression to the Mean in a Real-Effort Tournament (with Simona Demel, Philipp Denter and Jan Stuhler)
- Preparation time and exam performance: Heterogeneous Effects by Student Characteristics (with Francesca Baronchelli, William Foley, Patricia Lorente & Jan Stuhler) [Link to Working Paper]
- Digital Engagement and Perseverance: A Latent Profile Analysis of ICT Use among Teenagers (with Atefeh Bagherianziarat & Alfonso Echazarra)
- A model of indirect crowding (with William Foley) [Link to Working Paper]
- Work-family life courses and psychological well-being in later life: A comparison of Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain (with Mark Visser, Mustafa Firat, Gerbert Kraaykamp, Monika Von Bonsdorff, Jan Paul Heisig, Elissa El Khawli, Marleen Damman & Joop Schippers)
Participation in Funded Research Projects
- Comunidad de Madrid (2025-2027)
UNED (Coordinator: Miguel Requena); Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Local PI: Jonas Radl)
“Población, familia, migraciones, salud y calidad de vida y desigualdades sociales”
Ref. PHS-2024/PH-HUM-396.
- Netspar (2022-2026)
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (PI: Frank van Tubergen)
“Migrants’ retirement preparation: risk factors, causes, solutions”