EcoAustria economist Linda Dezső receives Elise Richter grant for highly qualified women in science and research
The Elise Richter Program of the Austrian Science Fund is a funding measure aimed at highly qualified women in science and research. It aims to support female scientists in their career development and to achieve a qualification level that enables them to apply for a professorship in Austria or abroad. The research project by Linda Dezső, economist at EcoAustria's Economic Research Institute , is one of the submissions funded this year. The total funding amount is around €305,000 and covers a full-time period of 36 months.
To be eligible for the program, applicants had to have relevant postdoctoral experience in Austria or abroad, an international scientific publication record and preliminary work on the planned research project or habilitation project. The prize was awarded by the FWF Board on the basis of an international review.
In her academic work, Dezsö investigated the connection between immigration and welfare chauvinism in Western European welfare states. The aim was to identify the causes of welfare chauvinism and to show how a fair distribution of welfare resources is determined from the perspective of third parties and interest groups. Using strictly controlled experiments and choice incentive methods embedded in behavioral economic theories, anti-immigration preferences were investigated.
