Jakub Lonsky: Breaking the Early Bell: Lessons from the First Statewide Mandate on School Start Times (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

This study investigates the effects of California’s Senate Bill 328 (SB 328)—the first state legislation requiring later school start times for middle and high schools—on adolescent sleep, mental health,...

AB InBev: Life of a beer bottle – from brewery to cheers (Kariérní centrum)

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM

Stefania Paredes Fuentes: The Economics Pipeline: Entry, Leakages, and Outcomes (MUES seminar)

12:00 PM

Despite the potential of economics to serve as a vehicle for social mobility and its impact on society, persistent disparities in participation and progression raise important concerns for the discipline....

Keyu Wu: Recovering true economic preferences in the presence of behavioral attenuation bias (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

The notion of a “preference” lies at the heart of economic analysis. Yet, because preferences are typically inferred from observed behavior - and because such behavior is often shaped by cognitive biases...

Matej Lorko: Five experiments on the effect of prebunking vs. debunking on disinformation discernment (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

The spread of disinformation is widely regarded as one of the most serious short-term global risks and a major societal challenge. In one laboratory and three online experiments, we measured trust in true,...

Devendra Bahadur Thapa: Affordance-Based Pathway Model of Social Inclusion (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

While technology can magnify existing inequalities by excluding marginalized groups in society, paradoxically, it can also serve as a means for them to move from isolation to inclusion. In this paper,...

Michal Jirásek: Airlines’ reactions to exogenous shocks and their performance consequences (MUES seminar)

12:00 PM

Exogenous shocks pose critical challenges for incumbent firms, necessitating strategic adaptations to ensure survival and subsequent performance recovery. This paper investigates the strategic responses...

Scott Mahadeo : Macro-level indicators of household and ambient air pollution mortality risk: global evidence (MUES seminar)

3:30 PM

Household and ambient air pollution (HAAP), a major global health risk, is linked to a lower quality of life and is responsible for over six million premature annual deaths globally. We investigate country-level...