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We are pleased to announce that the 7th International Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey of HSE (RLMS-HSE) User Conference took place on 23-24 May, 2025 at the Moscow campus of the National Research University Higher School of Economics.

We have published the program for 7th International Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey of HSE User Conference. Is is available for download in section "Conference 2025".

We invite economists, demographers, sociologists, political scientists and public health scholars to participate in the 7th International Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey of HSE User Conference. The conference aims to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the RLMS HSE project.
Registration of papers ais already closed. However, we remind that registration of other participants is still open.
The conference will be held online on May 23–24, 2025.

A large array of previously closed variables from the 13 - 32 waves of HSE RLMS has been published. The published data covers a wide range of topics that we hope will give new impetus to your research.

Earnings inequality in Russia has nearly halved over the past 25 years. The primary factors driving this trend are rising minimum wages, regional economic convergence, and shifts in the returns on education. Since 2019, a new phase of this process has been observed, with inequality continuing to decline but driven by entirely different mechanisms. These are the findings made by Anna Lukyanova, Assistant Professor at the HSE Faculty of Economic Sciences, in her new study. The results have been published in the Journal of the New Economic Association.

A large array of previously closed variables from the 13 - 32 waves of HSE RLMS has been published. The published data covers a wide range of topics that we hope will give new impetus to your research.

Personality traits such as conscientiousness, emotional stability, and an internal locus of control significantly influence one's lifestyle and longevity. Not only can personality traits influence health through beneficial and harmful habits but can also have a direct effect on mortality. Higher conscientiousness reduces the risk of premature death by 20 percentage points, while higher neuroticism increases it by 12 percentage points. These are the findings from a new study by Ksenia Rozhkova, Junior Research Fellow at the Laboratory for Labour Market Studies of the HSE Faculty of Economic Sciences.

Household and Individual longitudinal data files for Stata in English are updated and now include data from 5 to 32th waves of RLMS-HSE (years 1994 - 2023).