Topics of the workshop: - The formation of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in early childhood and adolescence; - Measurement of preferences and skills using survey instruments and experiments; - Malleability of preferences and cognitive and non-cognitive skills, and their rank order...

The topic of the conference is ‘Macroprudential Policy Effectiveness: Theory and Practice’. This conference will bring together researchers from academia, central banks, policy institutions who will present and discuss new results of their research on macroprudential policy effectiveness,...

This second IZA/Higher School of Economics workshop will bring together labor economists who are working on labor market adjustment in the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Central Asian former Soviet Republics and China. While the main focus of the workshop is on the specified topic,...

Topics: - what constitutes a ‘crisis’, global or local, in countries with decades of economic turbulence - changing notions of ‘the good life’ and luxury - youth consumer cultures, both emerging ones and those linked to Soviet pasts - migrant labour and local economies - money...

Program: Session A: Fertility in Russia Session B: Migrants and their Behavior in Central Asia and Russia Session C: Retirement and Consumption Session D: Invited Policy Lecture Session E: Informality and Self-Employment Session F: Minimum Wages in Russia Session G: Education and Labor Market...