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Recommendations for Long-Term and Short-Term Social Policy Measures
Russian Social Science Review. 2013. Vol. 54. No. 4. P. 33–49.
Ovcharova L., Maleva T. M.
The results of comprehensive analysis of income dynamics and the development of measures to provide social support of the population in various stages of the economic cycle enable the authors to formulate recommendations for measures to regulate incomes and social support of the population, which are divided into priority and long-term measures. The priority measures are seen as a policy tool in crisis conditions and are aimed at achieving two goals: (1) overcoming the negative consequences of the crisis, and (2) using the crisis stage for actions that are unlikely to be taken in conditions of economic growth.
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Extortionary ("harassment") bribery can persist even when widely condemned, consistent with a coordination problem sustained by beliefs about what others do and what others consider acceptable. We study whether a minimal institutional featurethe presence of a third-party monitor empowered to punish-shifts (i) normative expectations about extortion and compliance and (ii) empirical expectations about their prevalence. ...
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Mishin A., Guerrieri L., Kim J., / Series 2026-042 "Finance and Economics Discussion Series (FEDS)". 2026.
Within narrowly defined industries, the most productive firms produce far more than the least productive from the same inputs, and this dispersion widens in downturns. We build a tractable representative-agent model in which financial frictions—adverse selection and moral hazard—make firms sort endogenously into lenders, strategic defaulters, and producers. As credit conditions vary, the resulting misallocation ...
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Mishin A., Guerrieri L., Canzoneri M. et al., / Series 2026-042 "Finance and Economics Discussion Series (FEDS)". 2026.
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Bogatyrev R., Sandomirskaia M., / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series EC "Economics". 2026. No. 19(1).
This work develops a tractable model of price competition in fragmented markets where consumers consider both local and distant varieties, with cross-regional purchases subject to stochastic costs. Global competition and full localization emerge as polar cases; hybrid competition is not merely intermediate and exhibits distinctive features such as an endogenous price ceiling and non-monotonic entry ...
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Kravtsova M., Musaev A. U., Welzel C., / Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.
Elaborating on Welzel et al.'s "Cool Water Theory," our study zooms into the more limited (albeit still varied) framework conditions of Russia's huge territory. Within Russia's confines, we examine how the combination of moderately cool seasons with steady rain (i.e., Cool Water) affects sub-national areas' contemporary societal progress in two modernization indicators: material prosperity in ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Мальков М. Д., Социология власти 2026 Т. 38 № 1 С. 107–132
In care research, the notion of “home” often emerges as a key con- cern, with its conceptualization shaping social policy priorities. This article critically examines the idea of “possessing” a home, which is framed in two main ways: as a physical space that can be inhabited, modified, lost, or reclaimed, and as a site imbued ...
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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 ...
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Vorchik A., Мамышев М. А., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2025.
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Musaev A. U., Vorchik A., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
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Antsygina A., Teteryatnikova M., Tremewan J. C. et al., / Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2025.
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Abramov R., Rozhdestvenskaya E., Sablya A., Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии 2025 Т. 28 № 2 С. 182–210
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The decline of the total fertility rate observed in Russia since the second half of the 2010s has caused great concern among policy makers and public opinion, and resulted in proposals for measures to increase fertility through its rejuvenation. This paper, based on official fertility statistics with the use of the 2020 Census data and ...
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Cook L., Iarskaia-Smirnova E. R., , in: Emerging Trends in Social Policy from the South: Challenges and Innovations in Emerging Economies.: Bristol: Policy Press, 2024. P. 248–267.
This chapter addresses development and change in Russia’s social policies since 2005. We focus on three areas that have undergone significant reform: policies toward people with disabilities, child welfare and outsourcing of social service delivery to SONPOs (socially oriented nonprofit organizations). In these areas, the Russian government has adopted potentially transformative changes, moving away from ...
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The book sheds light on innovative solutions, new approaches and novel experiences in the Global South –
while posing the question what it means to be novel or transformative. More specifically, this book asks where to look for new inspiration in social policy making, and what actors or factors to study. The selection of case studies
reflects an encompassing take ...
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Sorokin P., Afanaseva I., Novikova V. et al., Журнал исследований социальной политики 2025 Т. 23 № 3 С. 577–590
In recent years, the concept of individual agency has occupied a central place in the social sciences and is increasingly being discussed in the context of public policy practices. In conditions of weakening social structures, accelerating technological and economic changes, the importance of a person's ability to act independently increases, including not only proactive formation ...
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Turovsky R. F., Sukhova M., Политическая наука 2024 № 1 С. 14–50
The article focuses on the topic of regional inequality in Russia. It considers two types of inequality – economic and social – and analyzes the impact of government policy on their dynamics. The results of the study show that, according to theoretical assumptions characterizing developing countries, economic growth in Russia does not lead to a ...
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