Sunday, August 18

• 13:00 – 23.00             Guests arrival
• 20:00 – 21:00             Registration, welcome meeting (get to know each other)

Week 1: Multilevel Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Monday, August 19

• 8:00 – 9:00                 Breakfast 

09:00 – 9:10               Welcome word by Eduard Ponarin (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) and Tatiana Karabchuk(LCSR HSE, Moscow)

09:10 – 10:40             Lecture 1 - General Introduction, Basic Multilevel Models and Mplus Syntax Files

• 10:40 – 11:00             Coffee Break

11:00 – 13:00             Lecture 2 - Computing Conditional Effects, Comparison: Multilevel Model with Mplus and with HLM, Wald-Test for Variance Components, Goodness of Fit-Measures for Model Comparison (Likelihood Ratio Test, AIC, BIC)

• 13:00 – 14:00             Lunch

LCSR Progress Reports. Session 1: Social Values, Social Attitudes and Welfare States

Moderator: Eduard Ponarin (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)

14:00 – 14:20             Julia Zelikova (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) – Welfare Policy, Aging and Social Justice (Progress Report)

14:20 – 14:40             Questions and discussion

14:40 – 15:00             Kirill Zhirkov (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) - Between Culture and Politics: Understanding Muslims’ Anti-Americanism (Progress Report)

15:00 – 15:20             Questions and discussion

15:20 – 15:40             Olga Gryaznova (LCSR HSE, Moscow) – Social Position, Values and Support of Different Government Welfare Programs. A Comparison of Six Types of Welfare Cultures (Progress Report)

15:40 – 16:00             Questions and discussion

Discussants: Andrey Shcherback (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg), Malina Voicu (GESIS, EUROLAB)

• 16:00 – 16:20             Break

Guest Lecture 1 

Moderator: Eduard Ponarin (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)

16:20 – 17:20             Yuri Saveliev (National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine) - Modernization  and Variations in Values Change in European Societies in 1995-2008

• 17.20 – 17.30             Short break

17:30 – 18:30             Additional course: LATEX for Social Scientists by Alexander Kustov (Princeton University) - Class 1: Introduction to LATEX

• 19:00 – 21:00             Welcome dinner 

Tuesday, August 20

• 8:00 – 9:00                Breakfast

09:00 –10:40              PC Exercises: Introduction in Mplus, Analysing Example Data

• 10:40 – 11:00             Coffee Break

11:00 – 13:00             PC Exercises: Introduction in Mplus, Analysing Example Data

• 13:00 – 14:00             Lunch

LCSR Progress Reports. Session 2. Liberalization, Democracy and Conflicts

Moderator: Herman Duelmer (University of Cologne)

14:00 – 14:20             Ekaterina Turanova (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) - Sexual Liberalization in Central Asia: a Marker of Modernization or a Choice of the Poorest? (Progress report)

14:20 – 14:40             Questions and discussion

14:40 – 15:00             Pavel Kuzmichev (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) - Democracy in the Arab World (Progress report)

15:00 – 15:20             Questions and discussion

15:20 – 15:40             Alexander Kustov (Princeton University) - The Agent-Based Model of Ethnic Structure and Civil Conflict (Final report)

15:40 – 16:00             Questions and discussion

Discussants: Kirill Zhirkov (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg), Bogdan Voicu (Romania Academy of Science)

• 16:00 – 16:20             Break

16:20 – 17:20 Team building for summer school participants

Moderator: Tatiana Karabchuk (LCSR HSE)

• 17.20 – 17.30             Short break

17:30 – 18:30             Additional course: LATEX for Social Scientists by Alexander Kustov(Princeton University) - Class 2: Writing articles in LATEX

• 19:00 – 20:00             Dinner
• 20:00 – 22:00             Work in groups or free time 

Wednesday, August 21

• 08:00 – 09:00             Breakfast

09:00 –10:40              Lecture 3: Graphical Representation of Multilevel Models, Multilevel Confirmatory Factor Analysis (ML CFA), Model Identification

• 10:40 – 11:00             Coffee Break

11:00 – 13:00             Lecture 4: Goodness of Fit Measures (SRMR, RMSEA, CFI, TLI),

Modification Index (M.I.), Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling (ML SEM)

• 13:00 – 14:00             Lunch

LCSR Progress Reports. Session 3. Nationalism, Migration, Social Attitudes and Voting Behaviour

Moderator: Bogdan Voicu (Romanian Academy of Sciences, Research Institute for Quality of Life)

14:00 – 14:20             Aleksey Domanov (LCSR HSE, Moscow) - Commitment to Nationalism: Predictors of Popular Political Euroscepticism about Common Immigration Policy in the EU (Progress Report)

14:20 – 14:40             Questions and discussion

14:40 – 15:00             Marharyta Fabrykant (Belarusian State University, Minsk) - Why So Proud? Individual and Country-Level Predictors of National Pride (Progress Report)

15:00 – 15:20             Questions and discussion

15:20 – 15:40             Boris Sokolov (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) - Value Polarization at the Country Level and Individual Xenophobia (Progress Report)

15:40 – 16:00             Questions and discussion

Discussants: Christopher Swader (LCSR HSE, Moscow), Eduard Ponarin (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)

• 16:00 – 16:20             Break

Guest Lecture 2 

Moderator: Eduard Ponarin (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)

16:20 – 17:20             Bogdan Voicu (Romanian Academy of Sciences, Research Institute for Quality of Life) - High-Skilled Immigrants and Social Integration in Times of Crisis. A Cross-European Analysis

• 17.20 – 17.30             Short break

17:30 – 18:30             Additional course: LATEX for Social Scientists by Alexander Kustov (Princeton University) - Class 3: Math and figures in LATEX

• 19:00 – 20:00             Dinner
• 20:00 – 22:00             Work in groups or free time 

Thursday, August 22

• 8:00 – 9:00                 Breakfast

09:00 –10:40              PC Exercises: Exercises on ML CFA

• 10:40 – 11:00             Coffee Break

11:00 – 13:00             PC Exercises: Exercises on ML SEM

• 13:00 – 14:00             Lunch

LCSR Progress Reports. Session 4. Gender Attitudes, Status and Work Ethic

Moderator: Anna Nemirovskaya (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)

14:00 – 14:20             Natalia Soboleva (LCSR HSE, Moscow) - Gender Attitudes in the World of Work: Cross-Cultural Comparison (Final Report)

14:20 – 14:40             Questions and discussion

14:40 – 14:55             Gosia Mikołajczak (Faculty of Psychology & Centre for Research on Prejudice,  University of Warsaw) – Religiosity, Values, and Identities in Support for Gender Status Quo (New Project)

14:55 – 15:10             Questions and discussion

15:10 – 15:25             Shirokanova Anna  (Belarus State University, Minsk) -  Religion as the Best Manager: The Effect of Religious Ethic on Work Ethic  (New Project)

15:25 – 15:40             Questions and discussion

Discussants: Tatiana Karabchuk (LCSR HSE), Malina Voicu (EUROLAB, GESIS)

15:40 – 16:50 LCSR  meeting  (only for LCSR permanent staff)

 Moderator: Tatiana Karabchuk (LCSR HSE)

• 16:50 – 17:00             Short break

17:00 – 18:00             Additional course: LATEX for Social Scientists by Alexander Kustov (Princeton University) - Class 4: Sweave - R, data analysis and LATEX

• 19:00 – 20:00             Dinner
• 20:00 – 22:00             Work in groups or free time

Friday, August 23

• 8:00 – 9:00                Breakfast

09:00 –10:40              Lecture 5: Using ML SEM to explain Measurement Noninvariance

• 10:40 – 11:00             Coffee Break

11:00 – 13:00             Lecture 6: Multilevel Formative CFA, Multilevel Path Analysis

• 13:00 – 14:00             Lunch

LCSR Progress Reports. Session 5: Loneliness, Anomie and Prejudices

Moderator: Eduard Ponarin (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)

14:00 – 14:20             Christopher Swader (LCSR HSE, Moscow) – Urban Loneliness?: Investigating the Roots of Russian Loneliness through WVS Data (Progress Report)

14:20 – 14:40             Questions and discussion

14:40 – 15:00             Ekaterina Lytkina (LCSR HSE, Moscow), Christian Welzel (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) – Anomie: Between Normlessness and Cognitive Disorientation (Final Report)

15:00 – 15:20             Questions and discussion

15:20 – 15:35             Oleksii Shestakovskyi (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv) - Alternative Explanations of Anti-Immigration Prejudice: Social Identity Theory, Anomia and Authoritarianism (New Project)

15:35 – 15:50             Questions and discussion

Discussants: Veronika Kostenko (LCSR HSE), prof. Hermann Duelmer (GESIS)

• 15:50 – 16:10             Break

Guest Lecture 3 

Moderator: Tatiana Karabchuk (LCSR HSE, Moscow)

16:10 – 17:10             Malina Voicu  (EUROLAB, GESIS) - Civic Participation and Gender Beliefs: An Analysis of 41 Countries 

• 17.10 – 17.30             Short break

17:30 – 18:30             Additional course: LATEX for Social Scientists by Alexander Kustov (Princeton University) - Class 5: Beamer - making presentations in LATEX

• 19:00 – 20:00             Dinner
• 20:00 – 22:00             Work in groups or free time 

  Saturday, August 24                       

Day off

• 8:00 – 10:00               Breakfast
• 13:00 – 14:30             Lunch
• 19:00 – 20:30             Dinner

Sunday, August 25              

Day off

• 8:00 – 10:00               Breakfast
• 13:00 – 14:30             Lunch
• 19:00 – 20:30             Dinner

Week 2: Multilevel Structural Equation Models

Monday, August 26

• 8:00 – 9:00                Breakfast

09:00 – 10:40             Practical Workshop: Working on an Own Multilevel Research Question

• 10:40 – 11:00             Coffee Break

11:00 – 13:00             Practical Workshop: Working on an Own Multilevel Research Question

• 13:00 – 14:00             Lunch

LCSR Progress Reports. Session 6. Civic Engagement, Activism and Corruption

Moderator: Anna Nemirovskaya (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)

14:00 – 14:20             Dmytro Khutkyy (National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Ukraine) - Proactive Orientation and Individual Activism as Causes of Personal Achievement and Subjective Well-Being (Progress Report)

14:20 – 14:40             Questions and discussion

14:40 – 15:00             Alla Marchenko (Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine) – Comparative Perspective of Civic Engagement in Europe (Progress Report)

15:00 – 15:20             Questions and discussion

15:20 – 15:40             Nicolas Griesshaber (Humboldt University Berlin) – Forms of Civic Engagement and Corruption: Disentangling the Role of Voluntary Associations, Elite Challenging Mass Movements and the Type of Trust within Networks (Progress Report)

15:40 – 16:00             Questions and discussion

Discussants: Natalia Soboleva (LCSR HSE, Moscow), Eduard Ponarin (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)

• 16:00 – 16:20             Break

16:20 – 17:20             LCSR Team-building (only for LCSR permanent staff)

Moderator: Tatiana Karabchuk (LCSR HSE)

• 17.20 – 17.30             Short break

17:30 – 18:30             Additional course: Data Analysis using R and SQL by Irina Nikiforova (HSE, St. Petersburg) - Class 1: Introduction to databases and database management systems; installation and management of MySQL and SQLite

• 19:00 – 20:00             Dinner
• 20:00 – 22:00             Work in groups or free time

Tuesday, August 27

• 8:00 – 9:00                Breakfast

09:00 – 10:40             Practical Workshop: Working on an Own Multilevel Research Question

• 10:40 – 11:00             Coffee Break

11:00 – 13:00             Practical Workshop: Working on an Own Multilevel Research Question

• 13:00 – 14:00             Lunch

LCSR Progress Reports. Session 7. Subjective Well-being, Trust and Political Behaviour

Moderator: Eduard Ponarin (LCSR HSE)

14:00 – 14:20             Marina Goroshit (Tel Hai College, Israel) - The Determinants of European Counries Citizens' Engagement in Protest Behavior (Progress Report)

14:20 – 14:40             Questions and discussion

14:40 – 14:55             Anna Almakaeva (LCSR HSE, Moscow) - Trust, Caution and Human Empowerment (New Project)

14:55 – 15:10             Questions and discussion

15:10 – 15:30             Vladimir Kozlov (HSE, Moscow) - Regional Discrepancies in Subjective Well-Being of Birth-Cohorts in Europe after the Threshold of Age 60 (Final Report)

15:30 – 15:50             Questions and discussion

Discussants: Francesco Sarracino (Ceps/Instead, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg), Hermann Duelmer (GESIS)

• 15:50 – 16:10             Break

Guest Lecture 4 

Moderator: Eduard Ponarin (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) 

16:10 – 17:10             Francesco Sarracino (Ceps/Instead, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg) - Reports and Presentations Using LaTeX and STATA

• 17.10 – 17.30             Short break

17:30 – 18:30             Additional course: Data Analysis using R and SQL by Irina Nikiforova (HSE, St. Petersburg) - Class 2: Database navigation; SQL language and queries

• 19:00 – 20:00             Dinner
• 20:00 – 22:00             Work in groups or free time 

Wednesday, August 28

• 8:00 – 9:00                 Breakfast

09:00 –10:40              Practical Workshop: Working on an Own Multilevel Research Question

• 10:40 – 11:00             Coffee Break

11:00 – 13:00             Practical Workshop: Working on an Own Multilevel Research Question

• 13:00 – 14:00             Lunch

LCSR Progress Reports. Session 8. Social Change, Genetic Diversity and Political Behaviour

Moderator: prof. Herman Duelmer (GESIS)

14:00 – 14:20             Andrey Shcherbak (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) and Svetlana Borinskaya (Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) - Exogenous Shock, Genetic Diversity and Social Change: the Case of Alcohol and European Colonization (Progress Report)

14:20 – 14:40             Questions and discussion

14:40 – 15:00             Alexey Zakharov (HSE, Moscow) and Eduard Ponarin (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg) - Genetic Factors and Preferences for Redistribution and Collective Behavior (Progress Report)

15:00 – 15:20             Questions and discussion

15:20 – 15:40             Maksim Rudnev (ISRAS; HSE, Moscow) - Value Consensus and Socioeconomic Development (Progress Report)

15:40 – 16:00             Questions and discussion

Discussants: Christopher Swader (LCSR HSE, Moscow), Eduard Ponarin (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)

• 16:00 – 16:20             Break

Guest Lecture 5

Moderator: Eduard Ponarin (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)

16:20 – 17:20             Francesco Sarracino (Ceps/Instead, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg) - Introduction to Happiness Economics

• 17.20 – 17.30             Short break

17:30 – 18:30             Additional course: Data Analysis using R and SQL by Irina Nikiforova (HSE, St. Petersburg) - Class 3: Advanced SQL queries

• 19:00 – 20:00             Dinner
• 20:00 – 22:00             Work in groups or free time 

Thursday, August 29

• 8:00 – 9:00                Breakfast

09:00 –10:40              Practical Workshop: Working on an Own Multilevel Research Question

• 10:40 – 11:00             Coffee Break

11:00 – 13:00             Practical Workshop: Presentation and Discussion of Own Multilevel Research Results

• 13:00 – 14:00             Lunch

LCSR Progress Reports. Session 9: Religiosity, Human Values and Subjective Well-Being

Moderator:  Tatiana Karabchuk (LCSR HSE, Moscow)

14:00 – 14:15             Elena Melkumyan (St.Tikhon’s Orthodox University, Moscow) - The impact of religiosity and religious education on basic human values (New Project)

14:15 – 14:30             Questions and discussion

14:30 – 14:45             Svitlana Khutka (National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Ukraine) -  Subjective Well-being, Quality of Governing and Declared Political Activity in Transition Countries  (New Project)

14:45 – 15:00             Questions and discussion

15:00 – 15:20             Anna Nemirovskaya (LCSR HSE, St Petersburg) - Standards of Life and Subjective Well-being: Evidence from Russia   (New Project)

15:20 – 15:40             Questions and discussion

Discussants:  Andrey Shcherback, Eduard Ponarin

• 15:40 – 16:00             Break

Guest Lecture 6

Moderator: Eduard Ponarin (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)

16:00 – 17:00             Francesco Sarracino (Ceps/Instead, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg)  -  Introduction to Imputation of Missing Data

• 17.00 – 17.20             Short break

17:20 – 18:20             Additional course: Data Analysis using R and SQL by Irina Nikiforova (HSE, St. Petersburg) - Class 4: Data manipulation and portability

• 19:00 – 22:00             Gala-Party Dinner  

Friday, August 30

• 8:00 – 9:00                 Breakfast

09:00 –10:40              Practical Workshop: Presentation and Discussion of Own Multilevel Research Results

• 10:40 – 11:00             Coffee Break 

11:00 – 13:00             Practical Workshop: Presentation and Discussion of Own Multilevel Research Results

• 13:00 – 14:00             Lunch

14:00 – 16:00             Additional course: Data Analysis using R and SQL by Irina Nikiforova (HSE, St. Petersburg) - Class 5: Data Analysis in R: Exploratory data analysis and introduction to data mining

• 16:00 – 16:20             Break

16:20 – 18:00             Finalizing Summer School results (giving certificates): 

Moderator: Eduard Ponarin (LCSR HSE, St. Petersburg)

Eduard Ponarin (LCSR HSE, St. Peterburg), Herman Duelmer (GESIS)

Participants’ feedback,
Group Photo!

• 19:00 – 20:00             Dinner
• 20:00 – 22:00             free time

Saturday, August 31

• 8:00 – 10:00               Breakfast
• 10:00 – 12:00             Participants’ departure