Staff profile

Tomas Zelinsky is an MSCA Research Fellow in the School of Education working on a project on socio-economic failure and aspiration biases. His primary research interests lie in the field of poverty measurement and the economic behaviour of the poor. 

Journal Article

• Bauer, Michal, Cahlíková, Jana, Chytilová, Julie, Roland, Gérard & Želinský, Tomáš (2023). Shifting Punishment on Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating. The Economic Journal 133(652): 1626–1640.
• Mysíková, Martina, Želinský, Tomáš, Garner, Thesia I. & Fialová, Kamila (2022). Subjective equivalence scales in Eastern versus Western European countries. Contemporary Economic Policy 40(4): 659-676.
• Želinský, Tomáš, Mysíková, Martina & Garner, Thesia I. (2022). Trends in Subjective Income Poverty Rates in the European Union. The European Journal of Development Research 34(5): 2493–2516.
• 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.
• Želinský, Tomáš (2021). Intertemporal Choices of Children and Adults from Poor Roma Communities: A Case Study from Slovakia. Eastern European Economics
• Mysíková, Martina, Želinský, Tomáš, Jirková, Michaela & Večerník, Jiří (2021). Equivalence Scale and Income Poverty: Two Approaches to Estimate Country-specific Scale for the Czech Republic. Social Indicators Research 156(1): 21-45.
• Želinský, Tomáš, Hudec, Oto, Mojsejová, Alena & Hricová, Silvia (2021). The effects of population density on subjective well-being: A case-study of Slovakia. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 101061.
• Želinský, Tomáš (2021). Subjective Well-being, Income, and Ethnicity in Slovakia. Journal of Poverty
• Želinský, Tomáš, Mysíková, Martina & Ng, Jason Wei Jian (2021). Choosing an optimal material deprivation indicator threshold. Applied Economics Letters 28(2): 100-104.
• Želinský, Tomáš (2020). Stereotype threat among European Roma adults. Applied Economics Letters
• Želinský, Tomáš, Ng, Jason Wei Jian & Mysíková, Martina (2020). Estimating subjective poverty lines with discrete information. Economics Letters 196: 109545.
• Mysíková, Martina, Želinský, Tomáš, Garner, Thesia I. & Večerník, Jiří (2019). Subjective Perceptions of Poverty and Objective Economic Conditions: Czechia and Slovakia a Quarter Century After the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia. Social Indicators Research 145(2): 523-550.
• Vecci, Joseph & Želinský, Tomáš (2019). Behavioural challenges of minorities: Social identity and role models. PLOS ONE 14(7): e0220010.
• Bauer, Michal, Cahlíková, Jana, Chytilová, Julie & Želinský, Tomáš (2018). Social contagion of ethnic hostility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(19): 4881-4886.