What happens when universities bring together students from all over the world? This episode explores how studying alongside international classmates influences native students’ friendships, relationships, attitudes toward migration, and decisions to live abroad, effects that persist decades later. Despite political concerns that foreign students may crowd out locals or harm their career prospects, the results show no negative impact on employment or earnings.

This episode is based on the paper "University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization" by Stanislav Avdeev.

The podcast has been created by Stanislav Avdeev using NotebookLM.

Even when researchers analyse the same data, they often come to different conclusions. This episode explores how researcher decisions in areas like data cleaning and study design create variation in results, based on a large study involving 146 research teams in economics.

This episode is based on the paper "The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics" by Nick Huntington-Klein, Claus C. Pörtner, Stanislav Avdeev, and co-authors.

The podcast has been created by Stanislav Avdeev using NotebookLM.

Can your brother, cousin, or neighbour influence your college major? This episode explores how the study choices of older siblings, cousins, and even neighbors can shape what younger people decide to study in college.

This episode is based on the paper "Spillovers in Fields of Study: Siblings, Cousins, and Neighbors" by Stanislav Avdeev, Nadine Ketel, Hessel Oosterbeek, and Bas van der Klaauw published in the Journal of Public Economics.

The podcast has been created by Stanislav Avdeev using NotebookLM.

How did the Bologna reform reshape higher education and the job market in Russia? This episode looks at the effects of Europe’s biggest education reform, showing how shortening university degrees influenced students' work and study decisions, with different outcomes for men and women.

This episode is based on the paper "Balancing Study and Work: Heterogeneous Impact of the Bologna Reform on the Labour Market" by Stanislav Avdeev published in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.

The podcast has been created by Stanislav Avdeev using NotebookLM.

Why do researchers from certain countries work together more often? This episode explores how geographical distance and shared language affect international collaboration in higher education research.

This episode is based on the paper "International Collaboration in Higher Education Research: A Gravity Model Approach" by Stanislav Avdeev published in Scientometrics.

The podcast has been created by Stanislav Avdeev using NotebookLM.