Faculty of Social Sciences
Recent Submissions
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Meta-Analysis of Social Science Research: A Practitioner’s Guide
original article
open access
submitted version
2024
,Journal of Economic Surveys
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(5)
This paper provides concise, nontechnical, step-by-step guidelines on how to conduct a modern meta-analysis, especially in social sciences.We treat publication bias, p-hacking, and heterogeneity as phenomena meta-analysts ...
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Conventional wisdom, meta-analysis, and research revision in economics
original article
open access
submitted version
2024
,Journal of Economic Surveys
Over the past several decades, meta-analysis has emerged as a widely accepted tool to understand economics research. Meta-analyses often challenge the established conventional wisdom of their respective fields. We ...
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Student Employment and Education: A Meta-Analysis
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Economics of Education Review
,100
(June 2024)
Educational outcomes have many determinants, but one that most young people can readily control is choosing whether to work while in school. Sixty-nine studies have estimated the effect, but results vary from large negative ...
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Meta-analyses of partial correlations are biased: Detection and solutions
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open access
published version
2024
,Research Synthesis Methods
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We demonstrate that all meta-analyses of partial correlations are biased, and yet hundreds of meta-analyses of partial correlation coefficients (PCCs) are conducted each year widely across economics, business, education, ...
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Transformative Activism and Feminist Solidarity: A Qualitative Study on the Personal Narratives of Polish Activist Women
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embargoed access
published version
2024
,Gender a Výzkum
,25
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The intersection of personal experiences, political contexts, and feminist activism are explored in this qualitative study of Polish migrant women activists. Informed by the author's own personal solidarity story and ...
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WHO HOLDS THE POWER IN DIGITAL PARTIES? THE CASE OF THE CZECH PIRATE PARTY
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Studia Politica
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Digital platforms play a dominant role in shaping (part of) the public sphere and are increasingly being adopted by political parties. These platforms connect people to various services, such as taxis and food delivery, ...
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Electoral manipulation and postelectoral protests in Latin America
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open access
published version
2024
,Latin American policy
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What is the relationship between electoral manipulation andpostelection protests in Latin America? The political scienceliterature has traditionally expected that election manipulationcan lead to postelection demonstrations, ...
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Publication and Attenuation Biases in Measuring Skill Substitution
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Review of Economics and Statistics
,106
(5)
A key parameter in the analysis of wage inequality is the elasticity of substitution between skilled and unskilled labor. We show that the empirical literature is consistent with both publication and attenuation bias in ...
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Learnability of state spaces of physical systems is undecidable
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embargoed access
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2024
,Journal of Computational Science
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(December 2024)
Despite an increasing role of machine learning in science, there is a lack of results on limits of empirical exploration aided by machine learning. In this paper, we construct one such limit by proving undecidability of ...
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Medium-run effects of COVID-19 induced distant learning on students’ academic performance
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Labour Economics
,Neuveden
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Administrative data on bachelor students for 2014/15 to 2022/23 academic years are used to analyze their performance before, during, and - what is new in the literature - after the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis reveals ...
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COVID angels fighting daily demons? Mental well-being of healthcare workers and religiosity
original article
open access
published version
2024
,European Economic Review
,162
(February 2024)
Relying on a unique survey of more than 15,000 healthcare workers conducted from June to August 2020 in Italy, we show that religious priming caused participants to have a less dramatic recollection of their distressful ...
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More Than Meets the Reply: Examining Emotional Belonging in Far-Right Social Media Space
original article
restricted access
published version
2024
,Social media + Society
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This article challenges prevailing assumptions that fringe social media platforms predominantly serve as unmoderated hate-filled spaces for far-right communication by examining the userbase's emotional connection to these ...
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(Ne)důvěra v očkování v ČR pohledem zdravotníků a váhavých rodičů
(Dis)trust in vaccination in the Czech Republic from the perspective of health professionals and hesitant parents
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Vox Pediatriae
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Váhavost k očkování je multidimenzionální fenomén, který je ovlivňován řadou individuálních i společenských faktorů (např. Dubé et al., 2013; MacDonald, 2015). Individuální faktory (např. Dubé et al., 2013; Rey et al., ...
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REFLECTIONS ON TERRITORIAL CLEANSING: LESSONS FROM BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA AND COLOMBIA
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Glocalism
,2024
(July)
This small-N cross-regional analysis examines the link between extreme but far from isolated massacres perpetrated during the Bosnian War 1992-1995 and the 1997-2003 interval in the Colombian armed conflict. The afflicted ...
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Interesting facts: holistic interviews on children’s nonfiction engagement
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embargoed access
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2024
,Language and Education
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Nonfiction has long been left out of the discourse on literacy and little is known about the affective experiences that children seek when they choose to engage with facts via reading and otherwise. We have conducted an ...
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Why and how to construct an epistemic justification of machine learning?
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embargoed access
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2024
,Synthese
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Consider a set of shuffled observations drawn from a fixed probability distribution over some instance domain. What enables learning of inductive generalizations which proceed from such a set of observations? The scenario ...
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Leader vs. the party dilemma: the case of a party rebirth in Czechia
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2024
,East European Politics
,Neuveden
(Neuveden)
Influential individuals gaining political weight at the expense of their parties are succeeding. Through case studies of two Czech parties, we explore the role of personalised party leadership. The puzzling set of events ...
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Náhradní výživné jako nedostupná dávka? (Emoční) bariéry jejího čerpání z perspektivy mladých dospělých dětí
Compensatory child alimony as an unavailable benefit? (Emotional) barriers to its access from the perspective of young adults
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2024
,Fórum sociální politiky
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Studie se věnuje problematice náhradního výživného, které je relativně novou dávkou české sociální politiky, ve vztahu k mladým dospělým - zletilým "nezaopatřeným" studujícím dětem, které mají nárok na výživné, ale nedostávají ...
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BEYOND BORDERS: UNVEILING THE MEDIA REPRESENTATION OF ZUZANA ČAPUTOVÁ IN CZECH ONLINE NEWS
original article
open access
published version
2024
,Communication Today
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This study underscores the influential capacity of transborder media communication in transcending geographical and political barriers, profoundly influencing political inclinations, voter behaviour, and public sentiment ...
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Trust matters: The Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy in Europe Study
original article
open access
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2024
,Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
,52
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This article presents the design of a seven-country study focusing on childhood vaccines, Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy in Europe (VAX-TRUST), developed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study consists of (a) situation ...
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