Projects
Behavioral Economics in Education KU Leuven
The human capital theory predicts that more educated persons tend to earn higher wages. This PhD research project studies how insights from behavioral economics can be employed in education. To examine the role and effectivenes of behavioral tools, we run large scale randomized controlled trials in Flemish secondary schools, as well as on the online platform www.gonna.be. In the former, we study how and which insights from behavioral ...
Using textual analysis to assess the materiality of risk management in financial reporting Vlerick Business School
The Market Access of Complementary diagnostics Vlerick Business School
Sustainable Sourcing of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables from Senegal KU Leuven
Rural development can be a major welfare catalyst for rural Sub-Saharan African regions, as more than 80% of the poor live in rural areas and derive their livelihoods from a limited range of (on-farm) activities. Rural development – an umbrella term for all activities, programs and strategies that target to improve the livelihoods of rural households – comprises both agricultural and non-agricultural development, and can be triggered through ...
A reinforcement learning framework for cognitive control Ghent University
While recent years have seen rapid advances in our understanding of the network of brain regions associated with cognitive control and decision making, the precise function of these regions remains highly ambiguous. A single region may appear to perform several different functions depending on the experimental task as well as the methodology used to measure neural activity. One particularly
important region in this respect is medial ...
Towards a theory of European constitutional interpretation. A transatlantic dialogue. KU Leuven
TOWARDS A THEORY OF EUROPEAN CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION. A TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUE.
Background
American Legal Realism. Former Supreme Court Justice Holmes' contention that the 'life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience' has resonated for over a century in American constitutional scholarship. Indeed, the school known as American Legal Realism (ALR), criticizing the 'transcendental nonsense' (K. Llewelyn) ...
Sustainable careers for project-based an dual-earner workers: a stakeholders perspective Antwerp Management School
On the one hand, we will investigate what determines career sustainability for people working in non-traditional forms of collaboration, such as an external employee in a project team. On the ...