resources. It appears that individuals and households are able to weather large economic crises at least in terms of maintaining …

the time period studied in this paper (1994 – 1998), Russia experienced two major economic crises. Both featured extreme …

-age populations in the world). Informal networks in Russia are likely to take on distinctive characteristics as the country?s economic … found in much wealthier countries. Although it is often assumed that the elderly in Russia are a highly vulnerable economic … evidence that transfers respond to economic needs (i.e. transitory fluctuations in resources). …

-term shocks. The recent economic crisis is not covered since the analysis was mostly completed by 2008. First, we present the … general picture which describes the current demographic and economic situations as well as the challenges that are being faced …

birth cohorts, disaggregated location information, and past economic conditions. We find that college expansion attracts …

, employment and shadow employment in Russia and Ukraine. The first section presents a summary of the economic and institutional …

transitional processes, particularly economic transitions on nutritional and health outcomes. We test the hypothesis that the …-shape and thus changes its sign from positive to negative in the process of economic development. For the case of Russia, we …