Work in Progress
- Social Inequality in Children’s Cognitive Effort and the Moderating Role of Incentives (with William Foley, Lea Kröger, Patricia Lorente, Alberto Palacios-Abad, Heike Solga, Jan Stuhler & Madeline Swarr) [Link to presentation] [Link to Working Paper]
- 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]
- Polluting student test performance: school-based evidence on the adverse effects of air pollution (with María Rubio-Cabañez) [Link to Working Paper]
- Effort and dynamics of educational inequality: Evidence from a laboratory study among primary school children (with 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)
- 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.
- State Research Agency (AEI) (2021-2025)
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (PIs: Jonas Radl & Jan Stuhler)
“Persistence in University Exams: Evidence from High-Stakes Tests on Digital Platforms”
Ref. PID2020-117525RB-I00.
- Instituut Gak (2021-2024)
Radboud University (PI: Mark Visser)
“Understanding old-age inequality: The impact of work, family and health trajectories on post-retirement economic, social and psychological well-being across Europe”
- Netspar (2022-2025)
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (PI: Frank van Tubergen)
“Migrants’ retirement preparation: risk factors, causes, solutions”