Remittances: Central Asia and global experience
This Thursday, November 19, the Russian Council on International Affairs (INF) in conjunction with the United Nations Development Programme held a public webinar "Remittances: Central Asia and global experience" on. The Experts were Tatiana Karabchuk (LCSR HSE), Mihail Peleah (UNDP), Sergey Ryazantsev (ISPR RAS).
Public lecture by Ronald Inglehart
On 17th of November Ronald Inglehart gave a public lecture titled "Why do sociologists, psyhologists, economists and political scientists study the values?" in the Center for Digital October, Moscow.
First day of the conference!
5th International Annual Research Conference started this Monday in HSE, Moscow. The first day of the conference showed that the event attracted the record number of scientists from foreign countries, ranging from Argentina to Japan and the Middle East!
A human life is "priceless" or does not cost anything?
Lenta.ru published an interview with Tatiana Karabchuk, Deputy Director of LCSR and one of the HSE experts. The main topic of the discussion was the estimation of loss from car accidents in Russia.
World Values Survey Association meeting
World Values Survey Association (WVSA) had a successful meeting of the Executive Committee and Scientific Advisory Committee held at the Higher School of Economics (HSE), November 13-14, 2015.
Happy future is possible
Russian popular science journal "Schrödinger cat" published an interview with Ronald Inglehart, Scientific Supervisor of LCSR. During the interview «SC» correspondent discovered that professor, unlike himself, is convinced that our long-suffering planet has the potential to become a planet of happy people.
New article in "Eurasian economic integration"
New article by Tatiana Karabchuk, Anita Moiseeva and Olga Gurkina titled "Age and Geographical Differences in Integration Attitudes of the Population in Post-Soviet States: What Does the New Data of the EDB Integration Barometer Tell Us?" was published in recent issue of "Eurasian economic integration" journal.
The inflow of migrants from Central Asia to Russia
The experts in Open Economy (OPEC.ru) wrote about the main results of a joint study conducted by EDB, UNDP, LCSR HSE and RAS titled "Labour migration and labour-intensive industries in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan: opportunities for human development in Central Asia", which main purpose was to identify trends, characteristics and prospects of development of migration from Central Asia to Russia.
The Effect of Particularism on Corruption
New article by LCSR associate researcher Valentina Rotondi and her collegue Luca Stanca (University of Milan Bicocca, Italy) titled "The effect of particularism on corruption: Theory and empirical evidence" was published in Journal of Economic Psyhology.
Demographics in lectures
Dmitry Zakotyansky (LCSR research assistant) gave several lectures on the demographics in the Novosibirsk State University, Russia. The lectures were organized within the program "labor market for social scientists: employment opportunities for graduates of the department of sociology".