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Measuring Welfare Gains from Better Quality Infrastructure
Journal of Infrastructure and Development. 2009. No. 1(2). P. 87–109.
Lokshin M., Klytchnikova I.
Projects and reforms targeting infrastructure services can affect consumer welfare through changes in the price, coverage, or quality of the services provided. The benefits of improved service quality—while significant—are often overlooked because they are difficult to quantify. This article reviews methods of evaluating the welfare implications of changes in the quality of infrastructure services within the broader theoretical perspective of welfare measurement. The study outlines the theoretical assumptions and data requirements involved, illustrating each method with examples that highlight common methodological features and differences. The article also presents the theoretical underpinnings and potential applications of a new approach to analysing the effects of interruptions in the supply of infrastructure services on household welfare.
Voytenkov V., Emerging Markets Review 2026 No. 101482 P. 1–37
This paper examines the effects of the 2008, 2014, and 2020 crises on household consumption patterns in Russian regions. The micro-level analysis is conducted using quarterly data from Rosstat's Household Budget Survey. Dependent variables are expenditure on food at home, out-of-home, alcohol, non-food items, services. Explanatory variables are household characteristics and dummy variables that capture ...
Added: May 18, 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
Kuzminov Y., Ovcharova L., Radaev V., Вопросы экономики 2026 № 5 С. 5–16
This article introduces the special issue of the journal “Voprosy Ekonomiki”, which focuses on household economic behavior. The issue is based on the “Economic Behavior of Households” project, which has been implemented at the Higher School of Economics since 2023. The project consists of two components: a field component, which involves collecting sociological data, and ...
Added: May 8, 2026
Kruchinskaia E., Gruzdev I., Вопросы экономики 2026 № 5 С. 96–114
The article is devoted to the analysis of the economic profile of the high-income population in Russia, a group that, despite its status as a significant player in the economy, which largely determines the demand for goods and services, as well as setting consumer trends for it, remains understudied. This is a global scientific lacuna ...
Added: May 7, 2026
Karpenko I., Эпистемология и философия науки 2026 Т. 63 № 1 С. 141–158
The article analyzes the principal interpretations of quantum mechanics from the standpoint of an original conception of informational realism. It is shown that these interpretations can be unified within an informational ontology in which fundamental status is accorded to informational invariants of quantum constraints that are common to all empirically equivalent interpretations of quantum mechanics. ...
Added: April 18, 2026
Max press, 2025.
Added: April 14, 2026
Volosyuk O. V., Kozylov I., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Международные отношения 2026 Т. 26 № 1 С. 46–61
The article analyzes the development of cooperation between China and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in the field of food security within the broader context of the Global South’s international structures. As one of the world’s largest agricultural exporters, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) represents a strategic partner for China, ...
Added: April 6, 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
Budnik R., Право. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2026 Т. 19 № 1 С. 81–111
The neural network breakthrough in the development of technologies for producing information objects based on the scientific and artistic heritage of mankind has intensified the discussion about what AI generated products are. Whether they can legitimately be considered protected results of creative activity, and who owns the copyright to them. The problem is aggravated by ...
Added: March 25, 2026
Urban dust nanoparticles drive inflammatory activation of human neutrophils and macrophages in vitro
Pavlyuchenkova A., Vorobjeva N., Ivaneev A. et al., Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2025 Vol. 32 P. 26541–26553
Today, the majority of the world’s population lives in urban environments, where they are constantly exposed to dust particles of varying sizes, including urban dust nanoparticles (NPs). The minute size of NPs ensures their quick and efficient penetration into inner body parts, where they can interact with many cell types, including epithelial, endothelial, and immune ...
Added: March 20, 2026
Лыткина Т. С., Smirnov A., Мир России: Социология, этнология 2019 Т. 28 № 3 С. 27–47
In this article, based on official statistics 2000–2017, we argue that neoliberal policies have neglected the Russian North: its people, its enterprises and its territories have been expelled from core social and economic processes. We develop the concept of “expulsion” to argue that organized institutional exclusion is the result of mischaracterizing Northern welfare, intensifying the ...
Added: March 19, 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
Аношин М. И., Егорова И. Н., Игнатова Т. А. et al., Экономика космоса 2025 Т. 4 № 13 С. 53–62
В статье раскрыты основные подходы к правовой охране и защите прав на данные дистанционного зондирования Земли из космоса, используемые в Российской Федерации, а также различные варианты структурирования сделок по передаче данных ДЗЗ потребителям, включая опыт защиты данных ДЗЗ в иностранных юрисдикциях. Отдельное внимание в статье уделяется правовым конструкциям сделок с данными ДЗЗ как в рамках ...
Added: February 17, 2026
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
Dregulo A., Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2026 Vol. 33 No. 8 P. 3252–3265
The present study focuses on greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment and sewage sludge disposal at landfill. Traces of ammonium, dihydrosulfide, phenol, formaldehyde, various hydrocarbons, and mercaptans have been identified. The dynamics of these gases are especially intense during the purification process from grids to aerotanks. Methane concentrations fluctuated more than sixfold in the wastewater ...
Added: February 10, 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
Barchukov V., Законы России: опыт, анализ, практика 2020 № 8 С. 91–94
Анализ современного состояния искусственного интеллекта в деятельности судов и правоохранительных органов показал: противоречивость доктринальных подходов и суждений, касающихся использования искусственного интеллекта в правоохранительной деятельности; невысокий уровень внедрения искусственного интеллекта в деятельность правоохранительных органов России в настоящее время. Автором предлагается два направления развития искусственного интеллекта в деятельности правоохранительных органов: а) применение технологий искусственного интеллекта в тех ...
Added: January 21, 2026