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The Economic Crisis of Newborns
 Matějček, Štěpán ; Janíčko, Martin (advisor) ; Koubek, Ivo (referee)
The thesis examines the determinants of decision making of child conception. The estimation of fixed effect model of panel data from 14 districts of the Czech Republic shows pro-cyclical development of the count of born children. According to the model, in the economic recession the demand for children declines, because the decision making is influenced by uncertainty that emerges from the labor market instability. The results are in consent with contemporary scientific literature which have shown the pro-cyclical development of fertility in developed countries since the 1980s. The model's dependent variable is the modified birth rate which allows to examine the impact of change in unemployment and other control variables on the decision making of child conception. The empirical results show that economic insecurity in the shape of unemployment have a significant negative impact on birth rate. Apart from the main outcome the paper presents other interesting results, the impact of changes in economic and demographic variables on the modified birth rate of boys and girls, marital status and education of mother and father.
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Do Hospitals Attract Injuries?
 Matějček, Štěpán ; Houdek, Petr (advisor) ; Chytil, Zdeněk (referee)
The thesis investigates the influence of distance of healthcare facilities on risk behavior of inhabitants and subsequent injury occurrences. Simultaneously, it is focused on the role of affect in decision-making process and risk prediction. An increased number of injuries occurred near hospitals indicates the existence of offsetting behavior expressed by an increased rate of hazardous activities in the area in question and offsetting behavior is caused by a feeling of easily accessible healthcare. Data gathered via questionnaire survey uncovered an increased number of injuries in the areas closest to a hospital and also an increased rate of sports activities which itself as the most risky activity because the number of injuries occurred during sports amount to more than a half of all surveyed injuries. People living near a hospital also experience higher risk of an injury occurrence. This fact supports assumptive existence of offsetting behavior. A feeling of safety based on an accessible healthcare decreases predicted costs of risk activities and these costs can have a form of an injury. There are other factors discussed in the thesis that may affect against the hypothesis of existence of offsetting behavior, which can be adopted by people living close to a hospital. For example, we could observe less risky behavior of people living near a hospital due to the impact of availability heuristic, which makes the consequences of injuries more easily imaginable.
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