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The Russian Federation offers the unique example of a leading centrally planned economy swiftly transforming itself into a market-oriented economy. This paper offers a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia, using multiple rounds of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring...
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The importance of investment in early childhood education (ECE) has been widely documented in the literature. Among the benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, is its potential to mitigate educational inequality. However, some evidence also suggests that the positive...
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The objective of this paper is to explain populist attitudes that are prevailing in a number of European democracies. Populist attitudes expectedly lead to social protests and populist votes. We capture the populist wave by relying not on voting behavior but rather on values that are...
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The effect of structural reforms on growth in Europe and Central Asia is assessed by looking separately at each supply …
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We revisit Western Europe's record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications … for the future path of Eastern Europe. The poorer Western European countries caught up with the richer ones through both … Eastern Europe the employment share of agriculture is typically quite large, and agriculture is particularly unproductive …
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