Enja Marie Herdejürgen

Enja Marie Herdejürgen is a PhD student in Personnel Economics at Paderborn University, Germany. Her main research interest is the study of incentives and when, how, and for whom they do (not) work. Her focus lies on disentangling incentives’ motivational and self-selection effects on performance, as well as on gender differences in the reaction to incentives. She applies a broad quantitative research approach to investigate these topics in various contexts, including the use of data from sports competitions and conducting field experiments in Africa. The types of observed incentives range from monetary rewards to commitment and social incentives.

Other current research interests include the impact of vocational training programs in Africa, the effect of leaders’ growth mindset, gender differences in competitiveness, and gender-based judgment bias in expert evaluations. Some of her early research on insights from online employer reviews has been published in PERSONALquarterly and as a featured study of the Industrieverband Büro und Arbeitswelt e.V. (IBA).

Enja Herdejürgen acquired a Bachelor’s degree in International Business Studies and a Master’s degree in Business Administration, both at Paderborn University. Since 2022, she is an executive committee member of the SASE (Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics) Women and Gender Forum (WAG), which aims to promote equality, diversity, and inclusion in academia.