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Basics

Name Vadim Ustyuzhanin
Email vadim.v.ustyuzhanin@gmail.com
Url https://vadvu.github.io

Interests

Comparative Politics
Revolutions
Mass mobilization
Modernization
Development of Africa
Demography
Russian mortality
Alcochol related mortality
Population projections
Multistate approach
Quantitative Methods
Quasi-experimental designs (especially in panel data context)
`Rare events` methods
Probabilistic forecasting
Panel data methods
Sociology
Values
Life spans
Risk behavior
Addictions

Work

  • 2022 - 2025
    Research fellow
    International Lab for Human Capital and Demography, RANEPA
    • Russian Demography
    • Comparative Sociology
    • Quantitative methods
  • 2021 - present
    Research fellow
    Center for Stability and Risks Analysis, HSE University
    • Revolutions
    • Mass Mobilization
    • Comparative Politics
    • Quantitative methods

Education

  • 2023 - 2025

    Moscow, Russia

    MA
    HSE University
    Comparative Social Research (in english), Cum laude
  • 2019 - 2023

    Moscow, Russia

    BA
    HSE University
    Public Policy (in russian)

Awards

Skills

R
dplyr, tidyr
ggplot2
Parallel processing
have my own packages
Econometrics
OLS, GLM, GAM
Fixed/Random-effects
ML (random forests, boosting, clustering etc)
Time-series (ARIMA and add-ons)
Causal inference (instrumental variables, matching/weighting, DiD, RDD)
Simulations
Demography
Mortality/Fertility analysis
Multistate approach
Population forecasting (deterministic/probabilistic)
Survival Analysis
Parametric models (Webull, Exp)
Semi-parametric (Cox regression)

Languages

Russian
Native speaker
English
C1 (IELTS: 8.0)