Diliara Valeeva - Research Assistant, International Laboratory for Institutional Analysis of Economic Reforms, National Research University Higher School of Economics. Address: 24 Myasnitskaya str., Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation. E-mail: dvaleeva@hse.ruOleg Poldin - Research Fellow,...

The authors discuss models presented in papers which are concerned with peer-effects in higher education, and their limitations. Open questions of educational policy and the challenges that they issue for researchers are formulated.

Sofia Dokuka - Candidate of Sciences in Sociology, Junior Researcher, Center for Institutional Studies, National Research University-Higher School of Economics. Email: sdokuka@hse.ruDiliara Valeeva - Junior Researcher, Center for Institutional Studies, National Research University-Higher School...

The article is an introduction to a range of problems of an empirical analysis of social media of higher education institutions students. In the first part of the article basic definitions are given, and key statistical characteristics of social media are described - such as network density, a...

The authors of the current article used distributions of the sum score of Russian unified state exam of accepted students to compare training programs. The authors propose quantitative and qualitative indicators of the differences between the programs. The effects of the bundle of programs by...

Martin Finkelstein - PhD, Professor of Higher Education, Seton Hall University. E-mail: martin.finkelstein@gmail.com Kevin W. Iglesias - PhD candidate, Senior Research Associate, Center for College Readiness, Seton Hall University. E-mail: kevin.iglesias@student.shu.edu Address: Seton Hall...

Ilya Prakhov, junior researcher at the International Laboratory for Institutional Analysis of Economic Reforms, Center for Institutional Studies, lecturer in the Subdepartment of Institutional Economics, National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation....

The article employs regression models on the data of the Education Economy Monitoring in order to study factors infl uencing the propensity of university teachers to engage in research. As independent variables, the authors take both personal characteristics of teachers and institutional...

This article was written after the authors visited a number of leading American universities, during which they met their American counterparts, experts in the economics and sociology of education. The organization of the education systems of Russia and the US were compared and contrasted during...