CV

2017+ CERGE-EI (under US absolute charter), Associate Professor with Tenure (Assistant Professor, 2011-2016), part-time
Member of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of the CERGE-EI

2017+ Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University, Associate Professor, (Assistant Professor, 2009-2017), part-time

2023+ CESIfo, Munich, Research Affiliate

2015+ CEPR, London, Research Affiliate

2009+ Institute for Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Research Fellow

2005 - 2009 Charles University, Prague, Ph.D. in economics

1999 - 2005 Charles University, Prague, BA and MA in economics

UC Berkeley, USA, Jan - March 2020

Briq, Germany, July 2018

UC Berkeley, USA, Feb - April 2018

University of Cape Town, June - July 2016

UC Berkeley, USA, Jan - June 2015

New York Universiry, USA, Sep 2007 - June 2008

Human Capital Affects Religious Identity: Causal Evidence from Kenya, with L. Alfonsi, J. Chytilová and E. Miguel, 2024 (forthcoming in Journal of Development Economics).

Nastiness in Groups, with J. Cahlíková, D. Celik-Katreniak, J. Chytilová, L. Cingl, T. Želinský, 2023 (forthcoming in Journal of the European Economic Association). 

Shifting Punishment on Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating, with J. Cahlíková, J. Chytilová, G. Roland, T. Želinský, 2023, Economic Journal, 133 (652):1626–1640 .

Communicating doctors' consensus persistently increases Covid-19 vaccinations, with V. Bartoš, J. Cahlíková and J. Chytilová, 2022, Nature, 606, pages 542–549. 

Psychological Effects of Poverty on Time Preference. with V. Bartoš, J. Chytilová and I. Levely, 2021, Economic Journal, 131 (638): 2357–2382.

Covid-19 and Hostility against Foreigners, with V. Bartoš, J. Cahlíková and J. Chytilová, 2021, European Economic Review, 137: 103818.

Using Survey Questions to Measure Preferences in Developing Countries: Lessons from an Experimental Validation in Kenya, with J. Chytilová and E. Miguel, European Economic Review, 2020, forthcoming

War Increases Religiosity, with A. Cassar, J. Chytilová, J. Henrich, B. G. Purzycki, Nature Human Behavior, 2019, 3 (February): 129-135

Social Contagion of Ethnic Hostility, with J. Cahlíková, J. Chytilová and T. Želinský, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the US - PNAS, 2018, 115(19): 4881-4886

Trusting Former Rebels: An Experimental Approach to Understanding Reintegration after Civil War, with I. Levely and N. Fiala, 2018. Economic Journal, 128: 1786-1819

Can War Foster Cooperation? with C. Blattman, J. Chytilová, J. Henrich, E. Miguel and T. Mitts, 2016, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 30(3): 249-274

Attention Discrimination: Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information Acquisition, with V. Bartoš, J. Chytilová and F. Matějka, 2016, American Economic Review, 106(6): 1437-1475

War's Enduring Effects on the Development of Egalitarian Motivations and In-group Biases, with A. Cassar, J. Chytilová and J. Henrich, 2014, Psychological Science, 25(1): 47-57

Parental Background and Other-Regarding Preferences in Children, with J. Chytilová, B. Pertold-Gebicka, 2014, Experimental Economics, 17(1): 24-46

Women, Children and Patience: Experimental Evidence from Rural India, with J. Chytilová, 2013, Review of Development Economics, 14(4): 662-675

Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit: Experimental and Survey Evidence from Rural India, with J. Chytilová and J. Morduch, 2012, American Economic Review, 102(2): 1118-1139

The Impact of Education on Subjective Discount Rate in Ugandan Villages, with J. Chytilová, 2010, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 58(4): 643-669

Youngism: Age-based discrimination and stereotypes about young adults, with V. Bartoš, J. Cahlíková a J. Chytilová, 2023.

Transmission of preferences within churches? Religious leaders and clusters of (in)tolerance, with Julie Chytilová and Eric Ochieng, 2024, working paper

Poverty and dishonesty: Evidence from Kenya, with L. Alfonsi, J. Chytilová and E. Miguel, work-in-progress

2022            University of Vienna, Max Planck Institute in Bonn.

2020-2021 UC Berkeley. Symposium on Social Cohesion in Ethnically Diverse Societies, Tillburg Uni. ERINN annual meeting. ESA Global Around the Clock Meeting (keynote) 

2018-2019 UC San Diego. ERINN workshop, Uni Oxford. Briq mini-lecture series, Bonn. Uni Frankfurt. Max Planck Institute in Bonn. UC
Berkeley. Annual Experimental Munich. FAIR Center at NHH, Bergen.

2016-2017 Exeter Price Workshop (keynote), SITE workshop in Experimental economics, Stanford. CEPR annual symposium in
development economics, LSE. University of Wageningen. European Behavioral Economics Meeting, CEU. 68°North
Conference in Behavioral Conference, Svolvaer. University of Vienna. Development Economics Network Berlin. Harvard
University, Dept. of Human Evolutionary Biology. WESSI NYU Florence workshop, University of Hannover.

2014-2015 University of Lausanne. Stanford University. Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen. IEA World Congress in Amman.
University of Bonn. Humboldt University. University of San Francisco. UC Berkeley. ASSA Meeting in Philadelphia.
Annual World Bank Conference on Africa (UC Berkeley). University of Verona. UPF in Barcelona. University of Zurich.

2012-2013 University of Gothenburg. The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin. Institute for Fiscal Studies - EDePo
in London. Workshop on experiments in development economics, University of Oxford. University of Maastricht. IZA in
Bonn. Central European University in Budapest. Mendel University in Brno. Workshop on fertile fields in economic
development, WZB in Berlin. Goethe University of Frankfurt. 

2007-2011 Max Planck Institute in Jena. Workshop in behavioral development economics, Brunell University. University of
Wageningen. Thurgau Experimental Economics Meeting. ISET in Tbilisi. ASSA Meeting in Denver. Nordic Conference
on Behavioral and Experimental Economics in Helsinki. IZA/WB conference in Cape Town. Thurgau Experimental
Economics Meeting in Konstanz. EEA Meeting in Barcelona. CERGE-EI in Prague. Nordic Conference on Behavioral
and Experimental Economics in Copenhagen. Northeastern Universities Development Consortium Conference (NEUDC),
Boston University. Workshop on Innovations in Research Design, Duke University. Rutgers, NJ. Hunter College, NY. 

American Economic Review, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Americal Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, AEJ: Applied Economics, Cognition, Czech Journal of Economics and Finance, Econometrica, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economic Letters, Economica, European Economic Review, Economic Journal, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of African Economies, Journal of Behavioral Decision-Making, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of the European Economic Association, Management Science, Nature, Nature Communications, Nature Human Behavior, Oxford Economic Papers, Plos One, Psychological Science, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, World Development. 

2023      Bedřich Hrozný Award for Creative Initiative, awarded by the Charles University Rector, joint with Julie Chytilová

2022      Award for Excellence in Research, Experimental Development and Innovation, awarded by the Czech Minister of Education

2020 Švejnar-Terrell Price for excellence in teaching 

2017 Exeter Prize for the best paper in experimental economics, decision theory and behavioral economics published during 2016
(Attention discrimination, joint with Vojtech Bartos, Julie Chytilova and F. Matejka) 

2016 Švejnar-Terrell Price for excellence in teaching 

2015 The Best Paper Award on The Economics of Discrimination awarded by UniCredit & Universities Foundation
(Attention discrimination...) 

2012 Selected as one of six most successful young Czechs by Czech economic weekly (Ekonom) 

2011 Otto Wichterle Prize for young scientists awarded by the Czech Academy of Sciences 

2011 Švejnar-Terrell Price for excellence in teaching 

2006 Young Economist of the Czech Republic, awarded by the Czech Economic Association