Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explain relations between socioeconomic factors and gender longevity gap and to test a number of contradicting theories. Design/methodology/approach: Fixed effects models are used for cross-country panel data analysis. Findings: The authors show that in...

Accessibility is a key priority of public policy in the social sphere, a necessary condition to ensure equal opportunities and cultural participation. Analysis of the international practice reveals that the issue of accessibility has two aspects - objective and subjective. Regression models were...

Pavel Derkachev - Candidate of Sciences in Economics, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Applied Economic Research, Institute of Education, National Research University-Higher School of Economics. Address: 20 Myasnitskaya str., Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation. E-mail: pderkachev@hse.ruThe...

The article describes the economic content of the concept of a basic education service and presents a new method to calculate the cost of such a service. This method is used to perform an approximate cost calculation for one of the Russian regions, and the results are compared with the actual...