A5086140633- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
- Game Theory and Voting Systems
- Corruption and Economic Development
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
- Gender Politics and Representation
- Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
- Judicial and Constitutional Studies
- Social Media and Politics
Charles University
2020-2025
Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education – Economics Institute
2020-2022
Abstract This paper introduces a new Czech Political Candidate Dataset (CPCD), which compiles comprehensive data on all candidates who have run in any municipal, regional, national, and/or European Parliament election the Republic since 1993. For each candidate, CPCD includes their first name, last age, gender, place of residence, university degree, party membership, affiliation, ballot position, and results for parties. We match over various elections by using algorithms that rely personal...
We study the effect of a substantial increase (36%) in parental allowance, universal basic income-type benefit, on labor supply parents young children Czech Republic. Parental allowance does not preclude market activity, which allows us to estimate income effect. find that reform resulted 4.8 percentage point (11%) decrease participation mothers children. Mothers with only one child (7.8 p.p., 20%) and university-educated (17 32%) reacted particularly strongly. The reduction hours worked was...
Using over 20,000 electoral slates from municipal elections in the Czech Republic, we document that proportional representation systems political parties rank candidates on systematically according to their valence, measured by educational attainment, and intra-party value, donations membership. The observed patterns are consistent with market mechanisms where party leaders benefit valence value of offer slate positions (i.e. probability winning a mandate) exchange. We show high those who...
Using over 20,000 electoral ballots from proportional representation elections, we document that political parties systematically sort candidates on the according to their valence and intra party value. Valence, measured by education level, captures public value of candidates, while value, donations membership, represents candidate party. The patterns observe are consistent with market mechanisms between leaders where benefit offer ballot positions (i.e. probability winning a seat) in...
We study the effect of a CZK 80,000 (36%) increase in parental allowance, universal basic income-type benefit, on labor supply parents Czech Republic. Drawing allowance does not preclude market activity, which allows us to income effect. After reform, mothers substantially prolonged average period they drew an allowance. The participation young children decreased by 6 percentage points (15%). estimated corresponds non-labor elasticity at extensive margin about -0.5. is particularly strong...
Running across the globe for more than a year, COVID-19 pandemic keeps demonstrating its strength. Despite lot of understanding, uncertainty regarding efficiency interventions still persists. We developed an age-structured epidemic model parameterized with sociological data Czech Republic and found that (1) delaying spring 2020 lockdown by four days produced twice as many confirmed cases end period, (2) personal protective measures such face masks appear effective just reduction social...
Inconvenient information about the performance of public institutions may undermine trust. In an experiment, I test how sentencing disparities among judges in Czech Republic affects respondents' perception judicial system. find no effect on declared institutional trust and willingness to rely formal Instead, marginally increased policy involvement: they became more likely (i) sign a petition that invites politicians address underlying issue, (ii) consider fairness system be important issue....
We study the effect of a CZK 80,000 (36%) increase in parental allowance, universal basic income-type benefit, on labor supply parents Czech Republic. Drawing allowance does not preclude market activity, which allows us to income effect. After reform, mothers substantially prolonged average period they drew an allowance. The participation young children decreased by 6 percentage points (15%). estimated corresponds non-labor elasticity at extensive margin about -0.5. is particularly strong...
The child penalty explains the majority of gender employment and wage gaps; however, less is known about factors driving itself. In this paper, we study gap in childcare preferences as a potential factor that contributes to penalty. We surveyed Czech parents elicited minimal compensation they would reMothers require for than fathers. estimated CZK 2,500 monthly, 7.6% median female wage, cannot be explained by differences labor market opportunities or prosocial motives care family member....
Inconvenient information about the performance of public institutions may undermine trust. In an experiment, I test how sentencing disparities among judges in Czech Republic affects respondents’ perception judicial system. find no effect on declared institutional trust and willingness to rely formal Instead, marginally increased policy involvement: They became more likely to: (i) sign a petition that invites politicians address underlying issue, (ii) consider fairness system important issue....
To limit sentencing disparities, criminal codes divide offenses into subsections with specific ranges. do so, they often use quantity thresholds (e.g. drug amount). We study the effects of such on decisions and argue that threshold effect can be decomposed two opposing mechanisms: severity reference mechanisms. conduct a vignette experiment Czech prosecutors find drive substantial increases in sentences thus lead to new source disparities. In most striking case, average recommended sentence...