Zuzana Irsova

Zuzana Irsova is a Professor of Economics at Charles University, Prague, with additional roles as a Senior Lecturer at Anglo-American University, Prague, and a Research Affiliate at Stanford’s Meta-Research Innovation Center. Her research focuses on meta-research, applied econometrics, labor economics, international economics, and energy/environmental economics.

Her work emphasizes methodological rigor in empirical studies, addressing issues like publication bias, model uncertainty, and data precision. She has contributed to high-impact journals such as Nature Communications, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Journal of Labor Economics, with over 4,000 citations.

She has received prestigious awards, including the 2024 Editor’s Prize in Experimental Economics, the Katerina Smidkova Award for top Czech female economists, and accolades from the Czech National Bank, National Bank of Slovakia, and Global Development Network. Her contributions to open science include maintaining meta-analysis.cz, a repository for meta-research data and code.