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behavioral economics
experimental economics
microeconomics
environmental economics
urban mobility
education research
I am an Assistant Professor in the Chair of Microeconomics at the Faculty of Economics Sciences, University of Warsaw, Poland. [Oct & Nov 2025 visiting at Lund University, Sweden]
I have experience in both qualitative and quantitative research. My work includes, among others, designing and conducting surveys and economic experiments, analyzing data, and studying decision-making processes and market interactions.
Majority of my research focuses on Behavioral and Experimental Economics, in particular on individual decision-making, preferences, rationality, and cognitive biases. I conduct laboratory, field and online experiments. (At our faculty, we have an experimental lab and access to a large, heterogeneous subject pool. Feel free to contact me if you are interested in potential collaborations!)
I am also passionate about teaching and making knowledge more accessible. I have taught various bachelor's courses in Microeconomics, both in-person and online, covering topics such as consumer and producer theory, game theory, auctions, public goods, welfare, or externalities.
In September 2024, I defended my Ph.D. in Experimental and Behavioral Economics. My doctoral studies were part of an interdisciplinary program in Quantitative Psychology and Economics, jointly organized by the Faculty of Economic Sciences, the Faculty of Psychology, and the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics at the University of Warsaw.
My thesis, titled "Individual decision-making under risk. Evidence from economic experiments", was supervised by Professor Michał Krawczyk and Dr. Katarzyna Sekścińska.
I study microeconomics from two angles. On one hand, I study economic behavior – how people make choices, form preferences, and where their decisions deviate from rationality due to cognitive biases, especially in the context of risk and uncertainty. I explore how behavioral factors shape decisions related to consumption, environment, health, urban mobility or retirement. To better understand these mechanisms, I conduct surveys and economic experiments (in the laboratory, online and in the field).
On the other hand, I analyze how markets function and how competition shapes economic outcomes. Following Adam Smith’s insight, self-interest and competition are key drivers of economic growth, but inequalities and the concentration of economic power can distort market mechanisms and allow certain economic actors to exert excessive influence over policy. I focus on cases where market equilibrium is disrupted, often leading to inefficiencies and outcomes that go against the public interest.
Framing-induced emotions affect performance in simple cognitive tasks under risk – multinational survey experiment
Impact of framing on decisions under risk: experimental evidence from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland
Behavioral economics of commitment devices – experimental analysis of demand and efficacy in the domain of physical activity (with Maciej Sobolewski)
Student well-being at schools affected by the COVID-19 pandemic: A quasi-experimental approach using large-scale assessment data (with Stefano Pagliarani)
Urban mobility patterns in Warsaw, Poland: the effects of physical infrastructure and subjective perceptions on individual behaviors (with Anna Nicińska and Adam Woźniak)
Brainstorming on:
different rules for reference dependence
how to design perceiving real losses in economic experiment (not to be attributed to endowment effect)
demand for ignorance
The representativeness heuristic and the choice of lottery tickets: A field experiment (with Michał Krawczyk)
Judgment and Decision Making (IF: 3.7), 2019
State lottery in the lab: an experiment in external validity (with Raman Kachurka and Michał Krawczyk)
Experimental Economics (IF: 4.1), 2021
Persuasive messages will not raise COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. Evidence from a nation-wide online experiment (with Raman Kachurka and Michał Krawczyk)
Vaccines (Special Issue: Psychological Aspects of COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake: Principles and Empirical Strategies) (IF: 7.8), 2021
Stability of the Representativeness Heuristic: Further Evidence from Choices Between Lottery Tickets (with Michał Krawczyk)
Decision (of American Psychological Association (APA)) (IF: 1.5), 2022
Air quality and transport behaviour: sensors, field, and survey data from Warsaw, Poland (with Archanowicz-Kudelska K., Castell N., Drabicki A., Gora P., Grzenda M., Grythe H., Hassani A., Horosiewicz S., Jaczewska J., Jakubczyk M., Kubecka M., Kula G., Luckner M., Nicińska A., Rożynek S., Skedsmo P., Sousa Santos P., Wolański M., Zagórska K., Zawieska J., Zawojska E.)
Nature Scientific Data (IF: 5.8), 2024
Modern Auction Mechanisms for the Media Market [in Polish] (with Mirowska-Wierzbicka, D., Zawadzki, W., Wilamowski, M., Fiok, K., Maciejewski, W., & Szczurek, M.)
Studia i Materiały Wydziału Zarządzania UW, 2021
Determinants of Willingness to Bear the Costs of Climate Action: Insights from Cross-Country Survey Data (with Łukasz Grzybowski and Token Doganoglu)
R&R at Ecological Economics
Co-creating inclusive sustainable interventions: Urban living labs with elementary school children and their parents (with Castell N., Hassani A., Kubecka M., Nicińska A.)
R&R at Cities
Access to education and clean air: Urban policies in Warsaw primary schooling (with Gora P., Luckner M., Nicińska A., Sousa Santos G., Zagórska K., Zawojska E)
R&R at Journal of Transport Geography
Reviewer for the journals: Judgment and Decision Making, PLOS One, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Member of the Ethics Committee at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, UW, since 2020
Independent Ethics Advisor for an ERC grant (no. 101126218), 2024-2028
Supervisor of the Scientific Student Association of Intercultural Economics at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the UW, since June 2025