How Private Health Insurance Affects Health Behaviour
Moral hazard in insurance
Living Alone
What it means for pensioners
Research seminar at CHEMP (23 January)
Research seminars at CHEMP are back! On 23 January 2019 we started off the new year with several presentations related to a major research project by CHEMP - study of cardiovascular diseases in Russia.
Seminar "What is unusual about the Russian mortality? Population-level evidence"
The 12th scientific seminar "Modern demography" was held on the 11th of December. Vladimir M. Shkolnikov, PhD, academic supervisor of the International laboratory for population and health of NRU HSE, research scientist at Laboratory of demographic data at Max Planck Institute for demographic research presented a paper "What is unusual about the Russian mortality? Population-level evidence".
Unfit
Why seniors don’t care about their health
Why Russians Do Not Trust Entrepreneurs
While Russians admit that entrepreneurs do make a positive contribution to society, public trust in business remains low.
How to improve the efficiency of outpatient care?
This issue was discussed by participants and guests of an international conference international conference 'Outpatient Care Delivery in the Russian Federation: Creating a Platform for Improved Health Outcomes', which was held at Higher School of Economics at the end of June.
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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.
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What Else Can Fingers Tell Us?
According to HSE researchers, men with a high 2D:4D ratio (i.e. those whose index finger is longer than their ring finger) tend to be better educated. These findings are presented in the paper «2D: 4D and lifetime educational outcomes: Evidence from the Russian RLMS survey» in Personality and Individual Differences.