Russia's mortality rate has risen sharply since 1990. Most experts agree that a major cause of this has been increasing … the affordability of vodka - both over time and across Russia's regions - closely matches variation in the death rate …

quality might make it impossible to create in Russia an effective knowledge-based economy. …

Applying the lifetime income approach the paper provides estimates for Russia's stock of human capital. The results … market value of Russia's human capital stock in 2010 was more than 600 trillion Rubles, or nearly 40 trillion US$ by PPP. In … had negative effect on human capital dynamics while effects of decline in mortality rates, shifts in educational structure …

The paper documents changes in the structure of earnings and earnings inequality in Russia during the period of …