We continue to share with our readers the most interesting, according to NES professors, graduation theses of NES students. Anastasia Khromenko from the NES-HSE Joint Bachelor of Arts in Economics Program, who had Professor Shlomo Weber as her academic adviser, talks about her research.
It is interesting to see how social capital affected mobility during the first months of the recent pandemic. During this period, the Covid outbreak and isolation requirements have not yet had a significant impact on social ties. Therefore, we can try to understand to what extent social capital helped people to solve the problem of increasing morbidity with the help of voluntary self-isolation. It turns out that research at different levels shows different results.