Learning and Work hybrid seminars, autumn/winter 2026

The hybrid seminar series takes place every two weeks on Tuesdays from 12.00 to 13.00, both in person and via Microsoft Teams.

Organisers of L&W seminars

Raymond Montizaan: r.montizaan@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Katarina Wessling: k.wessling@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Steffen Künn: s.kuenn@maastrichtuniversity.nl

  • Upcoming seminars

    27 October, TS49, room 0.003
    Olivier Marie (Erasmus School of Economics)
    The Mental Health Cost of Cheap Mobile Data with Robin Verbeek (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

    Abstract: Rates of anxiety among adolescents and young adults have climbed across high-income countries over the past decade, coinciding with the spread of smartphones and constant mobile internet. Whether cheap, always-available mobile connectivity is a cause rather than a correlate has remained unresolved for lack of credible causal evidence at scale. Using sharp and plausibly exogenous falls in mobile-data prices across 49 high-income countries between 2013 and 2019, we show that cheaper mobile internet increases anxiety, almost entirely among young men. A first price drop of at least 20% raises mobile-data subscriptions and increases the prevalence of anxiety among males aged 15 to 24 by about one per cent, with no detectable effect for females, older people, depression, or a placebo condition whose recorded rise reflects diagnostic change. The increase is concentrated where young people are most engaged in organized sport, a protective offline activity; this engagement gap statistically accounts for why only young men are affected; and treated countries forgo the rise in youth sport participation seen elsewhere, young men twice as much as young women. Our findings identify always-on mobile access as a distinct driver of youth anxiety and the displacement of protective sport as an important channel.

    3 November
    Guillem Foucault (TSE)

    17 November
    t.b.a.

    1 December
    Albrecht Glitz (University of Barcelona)

    15 December
    Sandra McNally (University of Surrey)

    Previous seminars

    20 October
    Mengwei Lin (University of Barcelona & IEB)
    Museums Around: Cultural Infrastructure and Educational Outcomes

    6 October
    Anna Bindler (DIW Berlin)
    Revealed Trust in Police

    22 September
    Harald Pfeifer (BIBB, ROA) - Canceled

    8 September
    Marc Witte (VU)
    Wage Information and Applicant Selection

    25 August
    Bohdana Kurylo (ROA)
    Subject-Specific Rank and the Educational Tracking of Migrant Students
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