Eszter Czibor wins Rubicon Grant to do Research in Chicago
TI PhD student Eszter Czibor received a Rubicon grant by NWO to conduct research at the department of economics of the University of Chicago (USA) for 19 months.
She was awarded the grant for her research project ‘Quotas and beyond: Using insights from behavioural economics to achieve gender balance in organizations’. Are quotas efficient in closing the gender gap at the top of corporate hierarchies? The project investigates the unintended negative consequences of gender quotas and proposes alternative mechanisms to promote gender balance in organizations.
Eszter is a PhD student since 2012 at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the UvA. She is an alumna of the TI MPhil program (2012, cum laude). Her research interests include economics of organizations, experimental economics, behavioral economics. She is researching projects ‘Does Relative Grading Help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom’ (Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper, 2014-116/III) and ‘Gender norms and the willingness to compete’. University of Amsterdam. Supervisors are TI fellows Randolph Sloof and Mirjam van Praag.
The Rubicon program
Rubicon offers talented researchers who have completed their doctorates in the past year the chance to gain experience at a top research institution outside the Netherlands, as international research experience is likely to be an advantage at a later stage in the applicant’s academic career. Applicants can apply for a period of up to two years at an excellent research institution outside the Netherlands. The covered costs are salary including fringe benefits, travel costs and a limited amount for research costs.
In the first application round of 2015, 97 researchers submitted an application for the Rubicon program and 21 received a grant by NWO.