-based funding (PBF) reform to provide a quasi-experimental assessment of its effects on Russian universities' performance. Data … performance of universities is actually affected by getting extra funding after the reform, although heterogeneity is at play. The …

criteria of applicant selection in Russia), but by characteristics that are not directly related to the applicants' abilities …

university choice in Russia. We argue that, even under the USE, which was introduced instead of high school exit exams and …

appointments of regional officials in Russia and China before and after 2012. We hypothesize that, as a consequence of the … centralization and personalization of state power in both regimes over the past decade, Russia’s system for appointing regional … from 2000 through 2019 in Russia. We discern clear differences between the pre- and post-2012 period for China and less …

In Russia, resources available for higher education institutions (HEIs) have been reduced while the expectations of …

high-stake accountability reforms in Russia. We examine school capacity in the top-down implementation of performance …-related pay (PRP) in Russia. We consider two cases of collaboration between schools and local employers that are either highly or …

mismatch situations in Russia under the Unified State Exam (USE) – the standardized student admission mechanism. This research …