March, 5 — regular seminar
Topic: “Country-level predictors in historical perspective”
Speaker: Andrey Shcherbak (LCSR, Senior Research Fellow)
The Laboratory for Comparative Social Research announces the next regular seminar, which will be held in Saint-Petersburg (Sedova st., 55-2, room 303) on March 5 at 17-00 p.m. Andrey Shcherbak (LCSR, Senior Research Fellow) will deliver a report “Country-level predictors in historical perspective”.The seminar will present a critical review of some existing datasets on historical estimates of key country-level social-economic predictors. Although really trustworthy statistical information is available only since the early 19th century, in last decades numerous research institutions collected and reconstructed a lot of historical databases with variables that social scientists often use. We will focus on historical estimates of population, fertility, child mortality, urban population, GDP per capita, various economic activities, homicide, education, political institutions, state integrity, conflicts and many others. These databases will be not only presented but also critically examined.
Everyone interested is invited!
Working language is English.
Guests from St. Petersburg are free to enter the building.
Videoconference with Moscow office of the LCSR (room 511, 22, Myasnitskaya st.) will be provided. Guests are free to enter to the 5th floor from 16:45 till 17:15. For questions: +7-495-772-95-90 extension number 12244.