prof. PhDr. Zuzana Havránková, Ph.D.

Zuzana Havránková is a Professor of Economics at Charles University in Prague, Senior Lecturer at Anglo-American University in Prague, and Research Affiliate at the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford. She specializes in labor economics, international economics, and tool development and applications of meta-analysis in economics. Dr. Havránková has published as corresponding author in leading journals, including the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Labor Economics, Nature Communications, European Economic Review, and Review of Economic Dynamics, with over 30 peer-reviewed articles to her name. Her work has been cited approximately 4,000 times and recognized in top journals such as Science and the American Economic Review. Her research has had significant real-world impact: her paper on daylight saving time has informed policy debates in the US Congress and European Parliament and has been covered by media outlets such as the New York Times and Der Standard. Nobel laureate Tom Sargent has used her work in his book on dynamic programming. Her studies in macroeconomics and international economics have been referenced in policy materials by the IMF, OECD, World Bank, and European Commission.

Dr. Havránková maintains the website meta-analysis.cz, which provides data and codes for meta-research; a paper forthcoming in JPE Micro is built entirely on this resource. She is Associate Editor for meta-analysis at the Journal of Economic Surveys and has been active in international networks such as the Meta-Analysis of Economics Research Network, collaborating with researchers at institutions including the University of California, Berkeley, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, and Stanford. Her academic achievements have been recognized with numerous awards, including the Katerina Smidkova Award from the Czech Economic Society (for the top Czech female economist), Editor’s Prize for best paper in Experimental Economics in 2024, and prizes from the Czech National Bank, National Bank of Slovakia, Czech Ministry of Education, and Global Development Network. According to RePEc, she ranks among the top 150 female economists worldwide and is currently the most cited Czech female economist.

Her research interests span several fields, including:

2025 Spurious Precision in Meta-Analysis of Observational Research, Nature Communications, forthcoming (with Bom, Havranek, and Rachinger)

2025 Publication Bias and Model Uncertainty in Measuring the Effect of Class Size on Achievement, Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming (with Opatrny, Havranek, and Scasny)

2024 Publication and Attenuation Biases in Measuring Skill Substitution, Review of Economics and Statistics 106(5), pp. 1187-1200 (with Laslopova, Havranek, and Zeynalova).

2023 Intertemporal Elasticity in Labor Supply: A Meta-Analysis, Review of Economic Dynamics 51, pp. 1095-1111 (with Elminejad, Horvath, and Havranek)

2022 Measuring Capital-Labor Substitution: The Importance of Method Choices and Publication Bias, Review of Economic Dynamics 45, pp. 55-82 (with Gechert, Havranek, and Kolcunova).

2022 Individual Discount Rates: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Evidence, Experimental Economics 25(1), pp. 318-358 (with Matousek and Havranek).