We take a decision-theoretic view on the question of how to use instrumental variables and method of moments. Since prior beliefs play an inevitably strong role when instruments are possibly "weak", or when the number of instruments is large relative to the number of observations, it is...

This paper considers the school-to-work transition and discusses its distinctive features in the Russian economy. Using RLMS data covering 1995-2003 years we estimate which factors and to what extent affect the transition. We also examine effects of regional unemploymentand wages, sharing work...

Russian abstract: В статье рассматривается европейский опыт признания (валидации) навыков и компетенций, полученных в рамках информального и неформального обучения....

Russian Abstract:Прием в вузы за счет средств федерального бюджета в 2021 г. вырос. Отчасти это было связано с социальными причинами – стремлением поддержать население в...

The Minimax criterion is considered as an alternative to the least-squares method in determination of principal components Estimated coefficients are formulated as linear programming problem The offered approach was experimentally checked using well known test data sets On these data sets the...

The second part of the article continues studying the structure of a set of variables. It consists of two pieces: (1) de-scription of a modification of Dempster covariance selection algorithm based on its combination with that of tree dependence structures construction, simulation results,...