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EDR 2012/2013 authors<br />
Alari Purju<br />
is Professor of Public Economy at the<br />
Tallinn University of Technology. His<br />
field of research is the economy and<br />
taxation of the public sector. He has<br />
also published articles on the mutual<br />
impact of foreign trade and regional<br />
economic activity, as well as the reciprocal<br />
impact of regulations, and the<br />
policies of the European Union.<br />
Allan Puur (PhD)<br />
is Leading Researcher at Tallinn University’s<br />
Estonian Institute for Population<br />
Studies. His area of research is<br />
demographic development in Estonia.<br />
In recent years, his research work<br />
has focused on fertility and family<br />
formation (the Second Demographic<br />
Transition, changes in the timing of<br />
parenthood and its effects, long-term<br />
continuities in demographic patterns).<br />
He also involved with the development<br />
of infrastructure and data sources for<br />
population research in Estonia.<br />
Triin Roosalu (PhD)<br />
is a researcher at Tallinn University’s<br />
Institute of International and Social<br />
Studies. As a sociologist, her research<br />
interests include social stratification,<br />
pre- and post-socialist states and comparative<br />
institutional analysis, which<br />
are related primarily to work, lifelong<br />
learning and the combining of jobs and<br />
life, as well as gender regimes more<br />
broadly. From 2004 to 2011, she participated<br />
in the international research<br />
project titled Towards a Lifelong Learning<br />
Society in Europe: The Contribution<br />
of the Education System; and since<br />
2012, she has represented Estonia on<br />
the lead committee of the International<br />
Social Studies Programme (ISSP).<br />
Jüri Saar<br />
is Professor of Criminology in the Institute<br />
of Public Law at the University of<br />
Tartu. His main fields of research are<br />
criminal careers, the various forms<br />
of criminal activity (incl. corruption,<br />
human trafficking and homicides) and<br />
crime control in a globalising world.<br />
Kaire Põder (PhD)<br />
is Senior Research Scientist in the<br />
Chair of Theoretical Economics of the<br />
Department of Finance and Economics<br />
at the Tallinn University of Technology.<br />
Her main field of research is political<br />
and institutional economics with an<br />
emphasis on the analysis of the attributes<br />
of social traps and distribution<br />
mechanisms. In addition, she is the<br />
responsible executor for the research<br />
topic, Estonian School Selection Mechanisms.<br />
Luule Sakkeus (PhD)<br />
is Director and Senior Researcher at<br />
Tallinn University’s Estonian Institute<br />
for Population Studies. Her main field<br />
of expertise is demographic development<br />
in Estonia; her current research<br />
is mainly focused on population ageing<br />
and health. Since 2010, she has coordinated<br />
the international SHARE survey<br />
in Estonia, and also actively involved<br />
in the development of the national<br />
statistical system.<br />
Anu Realo (PhD)<br />
is Estonian Academy of Sciences<br />
Research Professor in the Department<br />
of Psychology at the University<br />
of Tartu. Her research is focused on<br />
personality norms, personality genetics,<br />
emotions, subjective well-being,<br />
social capital and stereotypes of<br />
national character. Since 2012,<br />
she has also been the responsible<br />
researcher in Estonia for the World<br />
Values Survey.<br />
Jüri Sepp<br />
is Professor of Economic Policy at<br />
the University of Tartu, and Candidate<br />
of Economics. His research work<br />
is related to the institutional and<br />
structural factors of the economic<br />
development of states, including the<br />
organisation of the governance of<br />
the infrastructural sector. He is also<br />
the author and translator of several<br />
general works on economic theory<br />
and economic policy.<br />
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