Research & Expertise

Research Assistant Daniel Lebedev has joined the Organazing Committee of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA). 

The HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge, in partnership with the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation and Rosstat, has released new pocket data book in the ‘Digital Economy’ series. The publication presents a wide range of indicators describing the state and dynamics of the digital economy development in Russia. For some indicators, international comparisons are available, and for the first time a section on the children and teenagers’ engagement in the digital environment is included.

On Wednesday, January 12, the National Research University Higher School of Economics hosted a seminar "Expert opinion and data analysis".

The Condensed-Matter Physics Laboratory invites applications for postdoctoral research positions in the field of condensed-matter physics. The deadline for the applications is January 31, 2022.

On December 28, 2021, an international Logic Matters seminar was held.

On December 13 the article “Causality crisis” in acculturation research a false alarm?: A commentary on Kunst (2021) by Dmitry Grigoryev and John W. Berry is available online.

On December 21 Alexander Titov (Research Assistant, Center for Sociocultural Research, Postgraduate Student, Visiting Lecturer, Department of Psychology, National Research University Higher School of Economics) took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report "Values and religiosity of Orthodox Russians as predictors of their participation in religious and charitable organizations".

Issued in 2019 by the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK) at HSE University, the report‘What is the Digital Economy?’ has topped the Russian Science Citation Index list of the 6,000 most-cited publications in the digital field in 2019–2021. Analysis of the database shows that other ISSEK papers on digital topics have also become hits in the research world.

TheHuman Capital Multidisciplinary Research Centre and HSE University, in cooperation with the World Bank, held the conference ‘New Challenges of Demographic, Epidemiological and Medical-Technological Development: Search for New Models of Healthcare Development.’ The participants discussed whether the healthcare system was prepared to face the pandemic, how the latter affected lifespans and excess mortality rates, whether we can trust statistics, and what we should do to see ‘the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel.’