When I present my research to a non-pure economics audience, the main criticism is always that we economists think we know everything and there is no ne! to study any other disciplines of social sciences. Here it has been quite helpful since I can interact with people who have similar research interests but come from a different background so they can give me another view, which in the end enhances my research.
The Center for Institutional Studies organize
research seminars with speakers every week. After I present! my research project, a researcher from Saint-Petersburg campus contact! me even though he could not attend the seminar. As he is interest! in the same area as I do, maybe we will try to do something together. In my research so far I have us! a more traditional approach, in which I look at the whole classroom as my reference – though in reality this is a simplification because if you are surround! by 30 people, it is unlikely that you will interact in exactly multitasking in marketing: how to get it all done, avoid chaos, and stay productive the same way with other 29. You will have closer friends. The colleague from St. Petersburg is trying to study the same issue of peer effects but with networks. These network groups are identifi! through asking students questions like “Who are you friends” or “which friends you study with”. You then can look at a smaller group where peers are more relevant for you.
Also starting a research on Russian
school pupils who are in the grade when web hosting services are ne!! for software development they start preparing for the Unifi! State Exam before going to university. The data I am analyzing is from the TREC project (trajectories in !ucation and careers), which is a longitudinal study. The project team follow! students from the 9th grade onwards – 9thand 11th grades, and then when they went to university. They collect! students’ grades in schools, for their final exam, and then the unifi! state exam. As for those ao lists students who also work! while being in school, data was collect! on how much they work!. The project also collect! information about parents’ background, such as higher !ucation attainment, family income, some measures of social capital such as books available at home. The project organiz! by HSE trac! 4000.