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School Financing, Teacher Wages and Educational Outcomes in Russia
The policy proposal to increase the share of budget spent on public education implies that higher financing leads to bet…
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Coming to Terms with the Past – Challenges for History Teaching in Russian Schools
Russia is currently reforming its history teaching in basic schools. An original idea of producing one single textbook w…
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Education for the Poor
Authors: Lasha Lanchava and Zurab Abramishvili, ISET and CERGE-EI. This brief summarizes the results of a study by Lanch…
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The Political Economy of the Latvian State Since 1991: Some Reflections on the Role of External Anchors
This brief discusses the role of external anchors or goals such as WTO accession, NATO and EU accession in Latvia’s deve…
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The Relationship between Education and Migration. The Direct Impact of a Person’s Education on Migration
This brief is based on a section from a large policy report, which investigates to what extent education directly influe…
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Skill Structure of Demand for Migrants in Russia: Evidence from Administrative Data
Authors: Simon Commander (IE Business School, EBRD and Altura Partners) and Irina Denisova (CEFIR, NES). Using Russian M…
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What Expansion of Mandatory Schooling Can and Cannot Do in Conservative Muslim Societies
New research shows expanding mandatory schooling in conservative Muslim societies have broad positive effects on female…
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The relationship between education and labor market opportunities: the case of Ukraine
Author: Hanna Vakhitova, KSE and Tom Coupe, KSE This brief is based on a research project that analyses the extent to wh…
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Academic Inbreeding in Ukraine
In Ukraine, having a university degree only provides a noisy signal of one’s productivity, which means social ties and p…
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