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Dr Tomas Zelinsky's Outputs (15)

Nastiness in Groups (2023)
Journal Article
Bauer, M., Cahlíková, J., Celik Katreniak, D., Chytilová, J., Cingl, L., & Želinský, T. (2023). Nastiness in Groups. Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, Article jvad072. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvad072

This paper provides evidence showing that people are more prone to engage in nasty behavior, malevolently causing financial harm to other people at own costs, when they make decisions in a group context rather than when making choices individually on... Read More about Nastiness in Groups.

Shifting Punishment on Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating (2023)
Journal Article
Bauer, M., Cahlíková, J., Chytilová, J., Roland, G., & Želinský, T. (2023). Shifting Punishment on Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating. The Economic Journal, 133(652), 1626-1640. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uead005

Do members of a majority group systematically shift punishment on innocent members of an ethnic minority? We introduce an experimental paradigm, the Punishing the Scapegoat Game, to measure how injustice affecting a member of one's own group shapes p... Read More about Shifting Punishment on Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating.

Subjective equivalence scales in Eastern versus Western European countries (2022)
Journal Article
Mysíková, M., Želinský, T., Garner, T. I., & Fialová, K. (2022). Subjective equivalence scales in Eastern versus Western European countries. Contemporary Economic Policy, 40(4), 659-676. https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12579

We show that economies of scale estimated individually for each EU country differ from the officially adopted OECD-modified scale; the differences across the countries further confirm the prevailing East-West disparity. Using the minimum income quest... Read More about Subjective equivalence scales in Eastern versus Western European countries.

Increasing understanding of the aspirations and expectations of Roma students (2021)
Journal Article
Zelinsky, T., Gorard, S., & Siddiqui, N. (2021). Increasing understanding of the aspirations and expectations of Roma students. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 42(4), 588-606. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2021.1872366

Roma are the largest ethnic minority in Europe, and despite the efforts of national governments and international institutions in many countries, the majority still live below the poverty line. It is estimated that only approximately 20 per cent of a... Read More about Increasing understanding of the aspirations and expectations of Roma students.

Trends in Subjective Income Poverty Rates in the European Union (2021)
Journal Article
Želinský, T., Mysíková, M., & Garner, T. I. (2022). Trends in Subjective Income Poverty Rates in the European Union. European Journal of Development Research, 34(5), 2493-2516. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-021-00457-2

When developing anti-poverty policies, policymakers need accurate data on the prevalence of poverty. In this paper, we focus on subjective poverty, a concept which has been largely neglected in the literature, though it remains a conceptually appeali... Read More about Trends in Subjective Income Poverty Rates in the European Union.

Subjective Well-being, Income, and Ethnicity in Slovakia (2021)
Journal Article
Želinský, T. (2022). Subjective Well-being, Income, and Ethnicity in Slovakia. Journal of Poverty, 26(4), 271-296. https://doi.org/10.1080/10875549.2021.1910104

This paper utilizes two measures of subjective well-being to test a hypothesis that a marginal increase in subjective well-being associated with a marginal increase in income is larger for poorer than for richer populations. This hypothesis is examin... Read More about Subjective Well-being, Income, and Ethnicity in Slovakia.

Intertemporal Choices of Children and Adults from Poor Roma Communities: A Case Study from Slovakia (2021)
Journal Article
Želinský, T. (online). Intertemporal Choices of Children and Adults from Poor Roma Communities: A Case Study from Slovakia. Eastern European Economics, https://doi.org/10.1080/00128775.2021.1909424

Poverty may have negative consequences on people’s economic behavior and literature has documented close links between time discounting and poverty. This paper investigates intertemporal choices made by children and adults from segregated Roma commun... Read More about Intertemporal Choices of Children and Adults from Poor Roma Communities: A Case Study from Slovakia.

The effects of population density on subjective well-being: A case-study of Slovakia (2021)
Journal Article
Želinský, T., Hudec, O., Mojsejová, A., & Hricová, S. (2021). The effects of population density on subjective well-being: A case-study of Slovakia. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 78, Article 101061. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2021.101061

The main objective of the study is to examine the effects of population density on individuals’ subjective well-being (SWB). The physical characteristics of the built environment have recently received more attention regarding their role in influenci... Read More about The effects of population density on subjective well-being: A case-study of Slovakia.

Equivalence Scale and Income Poverty: Two Approaches to Estimate Country-specific Scale for the Czech Republic (2021)
Journal Article
Mysíková, M., Želinský, T., Jirková, M., & Večerník, J. (2021). Equivalence Scale and Income Poverty: Two Approaches to Estimate Country-specific Scale for the Czech Republic. Social Indicators Research, 156(1), 21-45. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-021-02636-4

The at-risk-of-poverty rate, the relative income poverty indicator applied in the EU, can be highly sensitive to the equivalence scale used to transform household income to an equivalent for individuals. This study applies two well-established approa... Read More about Equivalence Scale and Income Poverty: Two Approaches to Estimate Country-specific Scale for the Czech Republic.

Stereotype threat among European Roma adults (2020)
Journal Article
Želinský, T. (2022). Stereotype threat among European Roma adults. Applied Economics Letters, 29(1), 49-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2020.1855301

Negative stereotypes associated with certain groups can lead to stereotype threat, a phenomenon that can negatively impact performance. The majority of existing studies that find negative effects of stereotype threat on performance are based on subpo... Read More about Stereotype threat among European Roma adults.