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 main goal of this paper is to document and analyze the long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity and thus extend the recent empirical literature, which is mainly concerned with its measurement at a specific point in time. Using repeated cross-section surveys for five European...