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Russians’ participation in cash donations: factors and level of involvement
As part of Russia’s transformation process of the last decade, the preconditions for the emergence of philanthropic institutions were created. However, academic research on Russians’ philanthropic activity is lacking. This deficit stems, among other things, from a lack of empirical data on the subject. This article presents a groundbreaking attempt to rectify this deficit of empirical information on the topic. We examine the level of involvement of Russians in making cash dona-tions and reveal the factors that influence it. Empirical data were collected within the framework of the monitoring of Russia's civil society that has been conducted since 2006.
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Kuzina L., Popov E., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2025 № 2 С. 170–191
The article examines internet users' tactics for verifying false (fake) information and the factors associated with fact-checking. Working within the framework of the theory of prosumerism and everyday tactics (Michel de Certeau), the authors of the study aim at identifying and describing the arsenal of fact-checking tactics used by the Russian internet audience, and to ...
Added: May 16, 2026
Sizov A., Rodionova M., Sedashov E. et al., / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series PS "Political Science". 2026. No. 1.
Rapid development of surveillance technologies is one of the most socially important consequences of the digital age. This paper investigates the factors determining consent to surveillance of various types of personal data and contributes to rapidly growing research on citizens perceptions of surveillance practices. Relying on a comprehensive survey experiment, we study the effects of ...
Added: May 15, 2026
Карцева М. А., Peresetsky A., / Высшая школа экономики. Серия WP2 "Количественный анализ в экономике". 2026. № WP2/2026/01.
This study examines the association between health status among elderly individuals living alone and pet ownership (cats, dogs). We employ data from the “Time Use Survey” conducted by the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in 2019, which contains information on more than 10,000 elderly individuals living alone aged 60 or older in Russia, including data ...
Added: May 8, 2026
Ustyuzhanin V., / Series Econometrics "arxiv". 2026.
This paper proposes Covariate-Balanced Weighted Stacked Difference-in-Differences (CBWSDID), a design-based extension of weighted stacked DID for settings in which untreated trends may be conditionally rather than unconditionally parallel. The estimator separates within-subexperiment design adjustment from across-subexperiment aggregation: matching or weighting improves treated-control comparability within each stacked subexperiment, while the corrective stacked weights of Wing et ...
Added: April 3, 2026
Lebedeva D., Экономическая социология 2026 Т. 27 № 2 С. 149–167
Recently, anthropogenic climate change as a result of human activity during the Industrial Revolution, linked to accelerated fossil fuel combustion, greenhouse gas emissions, land-use change, and deforestation, has reached its peak and has been termed a climate crisis. From a social science perspective, the climate crisis is not only, and not so much, a geophysical ...
Added: March 30, 2026
Vorchik A., / Social Science Research Network. Серия SSRN Working Paper Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.
This article is devoted to the phenomenon of intrinsic motivation, to understand which two models are proposed. We study how positive/negative intrinsic motivation to work (experienced utility) affects worker's individual labour supply (model I) and the amount of effort they exert (model II). In model I, we use intrinsic motivation to explain the positive/negative slope ...
Added: March 15, 2026
Gaman-Golutvina O. V., Ковлер А. И., Вентана Граф, 2023.
The textbook is intended for studying the course "Social Studies" at the level of the second concentration. He introduces high school students to the political and legal spheres of society, to the problems of the modern global world. Working with him will contribute to the socialization of students and the formation of their Russian civic ...
Added: March 9, 2026
Shabanova M. A., Экономическая социология 2026 Т. 27 № 2 С. 11–51
In the contemporary world, food waste at the consumer (household) level poses a large-scale environmental, economic, social and ethical problem. Its alleviation meets UN Sustainable Development Goals (Goal 12.3). Based on the data of three representative surveys in Russia (2020, 2022 and 2024, N= 2,000 respondents each), the paper examines changes in the level of ...
Added: February 26, 2026
Кайдышева Н. Н., Ученые записки НТГСПИ. Серия: История и филология 2021 № 4 С. 43–55
The present paper set out to determine the contribution of the state, society, private companies, and individuals to child welfare. The research was based on materials of social state and public charitable organisations, local government bodies, Russian Orthodox Church, central and local periodicals. The author of the present paper analysed the areas, forms and scope ...
Added: February 22, 2026
Кайдышева Н. Н., Ученые записки НТГСПИ. Серия: История и филология 2024 № 4 С. 8–26
This article is devoted to the study of the history of volunteerism in the Soviet Union using the city of Nizhny Tagil as an example. The author substantiates the thesis that the social practices of Soviet citizens were a manifestation of charity. The work shows a wide range of forms of charity among the population ...
Added: February 22, 2026
Кайдышева Н. Н., Современная наука: актуальные проблемы теории и практики. Серия: Гуманитарные науки 2022 Т. 2 № 5 С. 16–21
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Added: February 22, 2026
Кайдышева Н. Н., Исторический бюллетень (Российская Федерация) 2023 Т. 6 № 3 С. 73–81
The goal of this study is to present the main achievements of modern Ural historiography in the field of the formation and development of civil society in the Urals in the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries, and to identify prospects for further research. Such leading researchers of the history of civil ...
Added: February 22, 2026
Ivanov V., , in: ERNOP Conference Proceedings 2025.: European Research Network on Philanthropy, 2026. P. 90–95.
The historical development of volunteering and philanthropy in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan has been studied from ancient times to the present day. It was found that volunteering and charity in Central Asia have common historical roots. Nowdays in all countries surveyed, the state plays an active role in developing philanthropy and volunteering by introducing ...
Added: February 21, 2026
European Research Network on Philanthropy, 2026.
ERNOP Conference Proceedings 2025
European Research Network on Philanthropy (ERNOP)
Proceedings of contributions presented at the 12th ERNOP Conference 2025
"Philanthropy by the people, for the people?
The roles, organisations and motivations of philanthropy in
contemporary democracies and social structures"
Heidelberg, 25–26 September 2025
First edition ...
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Vorchik A., Мамышев М. А., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2025.
In this paper, we develop a formal mathematical model aimed to explain the Dunning-Kruger effect that beginners systematically overestimate their own competence in various fields of knowledge and activity. We argue that the Dunning-Kruger effect arises from the emotional nature of confidence combined with unknown unknowns that it simply can not take into account due ...
Added: February 11, 2026
Musaev A. U., Vorchik A., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
This paper attempts to model the evolutionary theory of modernization and democratization. The model reflects the key provisions of R. Inglehart and C. Welzel's theory and provides a microfoundation for the adaptation of subjective values to the objective importances of the survival factors and the structure of the labour markets from the perspective of evolutionary ...
Added: February 10, 2026
Galygin R., Сошникова И. В., Современное право 2024 № 9 С. 44–48
This article examines the issue of determining the limits of the constitutional right of representatives of subcultures to associate. Subcultures as public associations are an institution of civil society and provide the definition of a person’s social identity. The authors examine the essence of subcultures, analyze their key features, and give their definition. Subcultures are ...
Added: February 7, 2026
Antsygina A., Teteryatnikova M., Tremewan J. C. et al., / Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2025.
Many competitive environments allow for a third party to be indirectly involved by supporting one or both sides in the conflict. Such support can come from trade partners, colleagues, or allies, who can in turn benefit from a supported party's success. We use theory and an experiment to investigate how support relationships develop endogenously in ...
Added: January 31, 2026
Akhmedova A., / Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.
The study explores a psychological phenomenon of inaction inertia-avoiding action after missing a more favourable opportunity. Unlike action inertia (e.g.,sunk costs effect), inaction inertia has been less studied, particularly in economic contexts. Considering the reference dependent nature of the phenomenon, I build on the work of Kőszegi and Rabin (2006) to examine how past experiences ...
Added: January 23, 2026
Kuchumova (Paramonova) Y. A., Ozhegova A., Зорина К. С., / Series SSRN "Available at SSRN 6108727". 2026.
Simplified tax regimes with explicit eligibility thresholds are a common tool which reduces tax burden but distorts firms’ behavior, creating local bunching just below the threshold. However, we show that when firms have access to business splitting their responses extend far beyond the local margin. Our model demonstrates that splitting reduces local bunching but amplifies ...
Added: January 21, 2026
Kuchumova (Paramonova) Y. A., Кумачева С. Ш., / Series SSRN "Available at SSRN 5312100". 2025.
In recent years, an emerging body of empirical research has shown that tax audits, in addition to recovering unpaid taxes (direct effect), increase future tax compliance (indirect or dynamic effect). This literature also suggests that updating expectations induced by audit experience plays an important role in explaining this indirect effect. However, exactly how taxpayers form ...
Added: January 21, 2026
Kuchumova (Paramonova) Y. A., / Series SSRN "Available at SSRN 5277500". 2025.
While the emerging empirical literature shows that collateral tax sanctions (CTSs) - such as driver’s license suspensions or passport denials - appear to be effective instruments to enforce tax debt collection, there are still few theoretical arguments to explain why. In this paper, I model enforcement of tax debt collection and provide a new rationale for why it could ...
Added: January 21, 2026
Dobrynskaya V. V., Tomtosov A., Речмедина С., / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP 60/FE/2017 "SERIES: FINANCIAL ECONOMICS". 2025.
We study the application of factor investing in the market for real estate (REITs). The analysis of traditional factor strategies, such as momentum, value, size and profitability, reveals their unstable and atypical behavior in comparison to the equity market, however, there is a strong momentum effect in the factor strategies. We propose a new dynamic ...
Added: January 21, 2026
Besstremyannaya G., Bakshuk M., / ЦЭМИ РАН. Серия 48 заседание "Сборник трудов Шаталинской школы-семинара". 2026.
В данной статье рассматривается реакция российских предприятий обрабатывающей промышленности на ужесточение экономических санкций с акцентом на период после 2022 года. Хотя санкции в целом негативно сказываются на экономическом росте и эффективности деятельности компаний, есть некоторые свидетельства того, что они также могут подталкивать компании к инновациям, а негативный эффект преодолевается при помощи адаптации компании. Исследование заполняет ...
Added: December 31, 2025