CInSt Research Seminar “Quo Vadis: Institutions, Abilities, and Educational Choices. Theory and an Application to Russia”
Leonid Polishchuk will present joint research with Michael Alexeev and Timur Natkhov.
Speaker: Leonid Polishchuk, Professor (Department of Applied Economics), Leading Research Fellow (Center for Institutional Studies), HSE University
Co-authors: Michael Alexeev, Professor, Indiana University; Timur Natkhov, Assistant Professor (Department of Applied Economics), Senior Research Fellow: (Center for Institutional Studies), HSE University.
Abstract
Institutions are expected to affect choices between productive and non-productive activities. We propose a theory, which predicts that such choices are sensitive to institutional quality in the mid-range of abilities, but this sensitivity subsides for low and top talents. We test and confirm this inverted-U relationship by using enrollment data on 1,300,000 Russian university applicants over the 2011-2014 period.
Date: 18 April, 2019, 6:00-7:30 pm.
Location: room 101-102, 4 bld.2 Slavyanskaya Square, Moscow.
Working language: English.
All welcome. If you don't have an HSE ID, please register here before 1:00 PM on 18 April: cinst.hse.ru/register.
Leonid Polishchuk
speaker