Yakovlev Evgeny

Associate Professor at NES. He also holds a Research Fellow position at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

He received a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and M.A. in Economics from NES. He is also a graduate of the Lomonosov Moscow State University with a diploma in Applied Mathematics. 

His research interests include Health, Labor, Political economy, IO, Applied econometrics. His papers are published in the leading scientific journals, including American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and Journal of European Economic Association. His own opinion articles are published in popular Russian media, including RBC, Vedomosti, Novaya Gazeta and others. 

In 2016, he won the National Prize in Applied Economics, and in 2020, the jury of the award distinguished his paper "Demand for Alcohol Consumption in Russia and Its Implication for Mortality" published in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and named him among the four finalists. In 2018, jointly with NES Professor Hosni Zoabi, he received a research grant from the Russian Science Foundation to fulfill a project on the theoretical analysis and empirical assessment of the relationship between education, investment in human and physical capital, inequality, poverty and economic development.