Бирюкова Светлана Сергеевна

Education and Degrees

2013

Candidate of Sciences* (PhD)

2010

Master's
Lomonosov Moscow State University

2008

Bachelor's
Lomonosov Moscow State University

* Candidate of Sciences
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.

Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience

01.12.2022-02.02.2023 — Data Analysis in R. Basics. HSE Training Center course.

30.11-25.12.2017 — Advanced MS Excel. HSE Training Center course.

23.11-21.12.2015 — Syntax in the academic English. HSE Academic Writing Center training course.

19-31.10.2015 — Spatial Demography: Concepts, Spatial Statistics, GIS and Cartographic Techniques. The MPIDR-NES Training Programme.

07.09.2015 — a training session Using GIS for Population Research (University of Leeds).

02.02-31.03.2015 — MOOC Questionnaire Design for Social Surveys (University of Michigan). Certificate (PDF, 116 Кб).

02.02-01.03.2015 — MOOC Getting and Cleaning Data (John Hopkins University). Certificate with distinction (PDF, 75 Кб).

25.08-29.08.2014 — Summer School on Longitudinal and Life Course Research: a one-week course on Life Course Theory and Methodology, VU University Amsterdam. Certificate.

01.05-31.05.2014 — MOOC R Programming (John Hopkins University). Certificate.

01.04.-30.04.2014 — MOOC Evaluating Social Programs of The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (MIT). Certificate.

17.02-28.04.2014 — MOOC Data Analysis and Statistical Inference (Duke University). Certificate with distinction.

Professional Interests

social policy family policy fertility demographic policy applied demography methods of demographic analysis economic demography welfare economics living standards social wellbeing foster care poverty inequality

Employment history

2012-2014: Institute of Megalopolis Human Development.

2010-2014: Independent Institute for Social Policy (IISP).

Awards and Accomplishments

Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Researchers" (2015–2016)

Courses (2024/2025)

Management Practices in Social Services (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
Postgraduate seminar (Postgraduate course; 2 year, 2 semester)Eng
Past Courses

Research & Study Groups

Co-head and coordinator of the Family-friendly Social Policy, Female Employment, and Living Standards of Families with Children Research&Study Group (2016)

Timetable for today

Full timetable

Editorial board membership

2022: Member of the Editorial Council (ответственный редактор), Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены (Monitoring Obshchestvennogo Mneniya: Ekonomichekie i Sotsial'nye Peremeny).

Conferences

2017
Population Days 2017 (Florence). Presentation: Motherhood penalty in Russia. Evidence from RLMS data
Population Days 2017 (Florence). Presentation: Stimulating fertility with monetary pro-natal policies - How effective is it? Evaluating recent Russian experience
XVIII Апрельская Международная конференция по проблемам развития экономики и общества (Москва). Presentation: Новые оценки штрафа за материнство в России
IX Валентеевские чтения «Демографическое образование и изучение народонаселения в университетах (к 50-летию кафедры народонаселения) (Москва). Presentation: Эволюция "штрафа за материнство" в доходах российских женщин. Динамика на уровне экономики и семьи

2016
Population Association of America 2016 Annual Meeting (Washington DC). Presentation: Getting Pregnant, Registering a Marriage: Still a Widespread Order of Life Events? An Analysis of Individual Biographies Based on Birth Certificates Data in Russia
XVII Апрельская международная научная конференция по проблемам развития экономики и общества (Москва). Presentation: Оценка влияния новых мер семейной политики 2007 года на вероятность вторых и последующих рождений в России
European Population Conference 2016 (Mainz). Presentation: The differences in cohort fertility of Russian women with and without migration experience: Census-based estimates
European Population Conference 2016 (Mainz). Presentation: More money — more births? Estimating effects of 2007 family policy changes on probability of second and subsequent births in Russia

2015
6-я Международная научно-практическая конференция студентов и аспирантов «Статистические методы анализа экономики и общества» (Москва). Presentation: Факторы, влияющие на вероятность вторых и последующих рождений в России
2d International Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey of HSE User Conference (Москва). Presentation: Assessing the Influence of Labor Market and Social Security Systems on Household Poverty in Russia
British Society for Population Studies Annual Conference 2015 (Leeds). Presentation: Impact of internal migration on cohort fertility: Case of Russia
British Society for Population Studies Annual Conference 2015 (Leeds). Presentation: Socio-demographic correlates of second and subsequent births. Estimates based on Russian Census data

2014
XV Апрельская международная научная конференция «Модернизация экономики и общества». (Москва). Presentation: Семейное устройство детей-сирот: специфика российского подхода в сравнении с опытом европейских стран
European Population Conference 2014 (Будапешт). Presentation: “Who prefers zero? Attitudes toward childlessness in Russia and in its capital city”

Expertise

2017-2018: local partner for the Women, Business and the Law 2018 report (World Bank).

2013-2015: member of the Scientific Committee for Unicef CEE/CIS Social monitor. Full text available: Social monitor: Social protection for child rights and well-being in Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia

15

Jul

2024

Exploring Research Prospects and Collaboration Opportunities: Discussion of Strategic Projects Held at HSE University

On June 26 and 27, HSE University at Pokrovka hosted a discussion of potential partnerships between the university's research teams and strategic projects under the Priority 2030 programme. During the two-day session, the heads of strategic projects presented the main areas of their ongoing research, highlighted some of the key results achieved, and shared their vision for involving new researchers in the projects.

13

Aug

2018

An article “Russian salaries caught up Romanian ones. A labor market monitoring” is published by the Kommersant newspaper

The salaries on the Russian labor market are higher than in the other CIS countries and are comparable with the ones in Central and Eastern Europe, claim the experts of the Higher School of Economics in the “Interstate comparison of the salary levels in 2011-2017” monitoring. The calculations are based on the purchasing power parity (PPP).

9

Aug

2017

Who is the Head of the Household?

Domestic work in Russian families is still a woman's business.

16

Jun

2017

Female Employees with Children Pay 'Motherhood Penalty'

Female employees with children tend to earn less than their childless colleagues, but the difference is usually small, at 4% on average.

17

May

2016

Research seminar "Estimating effects of 2007 family policy changes on probability of second and subsequent births in Russia"

Speakers - Svetlana Biryukova and Oksana Sinyavskaya (Centre for Family Policy and Quality of Life Studies HSE)

13

May

2015

3.25 million

Moscow residents are first-generation migrants from other regions of Russia, i.e., they were born outside the capital.

Svetlana Biryukova