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Overweight Russians tend to earn significantly less than their slimmer counterparts, with a 10% increase in body mass index (BMI) associated with a 9% decrease in wages. These are the findings made by Anastasiia Deeva, lecturer at the HSE Faculty of Economic Sciences and intern researcher in Laboratory of Economic Research in Public Sector. The article has been published in Voprosy Statistiki.

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.

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.

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).

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

Vaccination is generally considered an essential tool for curbing the COVID-19 pandemic. Although Russia was one of the first countries to develop a vaccine against COVID-19 and launched an immunisation campaign in 2021, its vaccination rates remained low for a long time. By October 2021, only 36% of Russian adults were vaccinated, many of whom were compelled by their employers to do so. Having examined the factors contributing to low trust in vaccination among Russians, HSE economists suggest measures to improve vaccination uptake. The paper is published in Vaccine.

For our users who works with RLMS-HSE data in English in Stata we have prepared updated longitudinal household and individual databases covering the study period from 1994 to 2021 in the '.dta' format.