Philipp Koellinger receives grant from the Swedish Söderberg foundation

The genoeconomics research group of the Erasmus School of Economics (Patrick Groenen, Philipp Koellinger and Roy Thurik), together with colleagues from Cornell, New York University and Stockholm School of Economics, won a research grant from the Swedish Söderberg foundation for ~400,000EUR.

It will be mainly spent at ESE to hire a new PhD student and a postdoc. This is the third grant secured by the group in the past 12 months for their research on the molecular genetics of economic behaviors (genoeconomics). The other two were from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health. Philipp Koellinger: "I think this shows that the research community finds our work exciting and that it sees us as a leading center for this newly emerging field". The genoeconomics initiative is a joint effort of ESE and the Erasmus Medical Centre (Bert Hofman, André Uitterlinden et al.).

ESE invested in the initiative funding two PhD students and the Erasmus University board funded the preparation of the grant applications. The initiative started with the aim to discover genes that are associated with entrepreneurial behavior in some 60,000 individuals (Gentrepreneurship Consortium). Following this initiative the Social Science Genetics Association Consortium (http://www.ssgac.org) has been set up to investigate a wider range of economic behaviors.

See for more information:

For the Söderberg foundation click here

Open PhD position for the project click here

For the Social Science Genetics Association Consortium click here