Two of the most important health risk factors for children and young adults are obesity and alcohol use. These risk factors are known to affect health and wellbeing, but may also have an impact on educational outcomes. The objective of this study was to assess a potential causal relationship...

This paper analyzes the effects of an educational system expansion on labour market outcomes, drawing upon a 15-year natural experiment in the Russian Federation. Regional increases in student intake capacities in Russian universities, a result of educational reforms, provide a plausibly...

This paper considers institutional problems associated with human capital return on the Russian labor market.The relevance of the research is associated with low returns on human capital on the Russian labor market and the need to create institutional conditions favorable to unlocking the...

This paper considers institutional problems associated with human capital return on the Russian labor market.The relevance of the research is associated with low returns on human capital on the Russian labor market and the need to create institutional conditions favorable to unlocking the...

The research deals with the analysis of consumer expectations of Russian population, which are mediated by many socio-demographic characteristics: income, age, education, place of residence, sex, etc. The paper points up the influence on variable “age” because it is rather complex itself....

This paper presents new estimates of the returns to education in the Russian Federation using data from 1994 to 2018. Although the returns to schooling increased for a time, they are now much lower than the global average. Private returns to education are three times greater for higher education...