As populations age, long-term care policies increasingly shift caregiving from institutions to families. This project estimates the causal effects of a parent’s nursing home admission on adult children’s employment, income, marital stability, and (mental) health using Dutch administrative data, revealing the broader family consequences of long-term care policy.

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Many organisations aim to combine social impact with financial success, but little is known about what makes this work. We study whether leadership gender matters. Our initial findings suggest that UK social enterprises with more women in leadership perform better. With the ASF grant we will now investigate the career, governance, and team factors that help explain this relationship.

Generative AI is everywhere, but does it actually work for older employees, or just add another thing to figure out? This project investigates how employees aged 50+ can use AI in ways that fit their needs and motives, and whether doing so helps them build more meaningful and sustainable careers.

As development programs increasingly target women's economic empowerment, we know little about how this affects men within the household. Using focus groups in rural Rwanda, this project examines local masculinity norms and how they shape men's responses, helping design development initiatives that work better for women, men, and communities alike.

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This project investigates how the marketing of GLP-1 medications shapes health behaviour, public perceptions, and long-term treatment outcomes. By examining how different communication strategies influence lifestyle engagement and stigma, the research aims to develop evidence-based recommendations for pharmaceutical companies, healthcare providers, and policymakers to support healthier and more equitable obesity care.

Governments worldwide deploy more than $150 billion per year to support innovative startups. Which firms receive support? Using confidential credit-registry data matched with venture capital records, this project studies a salient pattern: government support in the form of loan guarantees flows disproportionately to startups backed by top-tier VC investors.

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A promising process within sustainability transitions is social tipping: rapid, self-propelling diffusion of a sustainable behaviour across society. It is however unclear which emission-intensive behaviours are susceptible to social tipping. Here, we develop and test a new method (i.e. threshold elicitation) for determining whether a behaviour might be tippable.

When a bank fails, is it because depositors panic, because the bank was already in trouble, or both? We study the 1920s Dutch banking crisis, digitising records of individual depositors at different branches to find out. The results improve our understanding of bank runs and the appropriate policy response.

People may misjudge who is likely to behave antisocially, even when actual behavior does not differ much across demographic groups. This study measures actual antisocial behaviour, compares it with people's beliefs, tests whether evidence changes those beliefs, and examines whether such beliefs affect whom people choose to interact with in economic decisions.

Why do people hold back opinions that most of their group actually shares? We use lab experiments to investigate whether image concerns play a role. Because opinions cluster, people may worry that voicing one opinion leads others to attribute views to them that they do not hold, or even dislike.

As ethically framed (e.g., sustainable, fair) products become more common, their meaning for consumers may change. This project examines how consumers’ beliefs that ethical products can serve as a source of distinctiveness shape product preferences, highlighting actionable levers for maintaining the appeal of such products.

As populations age, waiting lists for elective surgery keep growing across Europe. However, we know little about what these delays cost older individuals. Using rich administrative data and hip replacements as a case study, this project measures the hidden labor market, health and welfare effects of waiting for treatment.

The Dutch welfare state is complex. Many people don't claim benefits they're entitled to, and others end up with debts from repayments. This project asks whether Dutch citizens are aware of this complexity, and whether learning about it changes their support for simpler alternatives.