Data from surveys of parents of students in Russian schools of various types in the years 2006 to 2011 show a high level of desire to invest in their children's education. There has been a high degree of stability in aspirations and investment in spite of the economic problems caused by global recession.

Recent changes to the budgetary basis of schools in Russia has received a mixed response from parents, with a variety of views on whether the quality of education is being improved. Reductions in state support for preschool education raises questions about the ability of less affluent parents to prepare their children for first grade. Perhaps more…

Research on the relationship between education and occupational career in Russia shows that the type of secondary educational institution from which people initially graduate has a lengthy and latent differentiating influence on their accumulation of educational capital and their educational and professional trajectories. The groups with varying…

The empirical base for this article was provided by the results of two surveys of households of regional and Moscow samples, conducted by the Public-Opinion Foundation in September and October 2004. This article focuses on a description of the regional survey, and uses the Moscow data as an example of a more developed market of educational…

In this article, the authors' focus has been the issue of access to a higher education "from the standpoint of differences in the resource characteristics of families." The authors state that in mapping out educational strategies for their children, families must make a rational choice as they look for the optimal correlation between the…