Daria Khaltourina facts for kids
Daria Khaltourina is a smart Russian scientist. She was born on January 4, 1979, in Chelyabinsk. She studies how societies work, how people live, and how populations change.
Daria is a leader in her field. She helps watch for big changes and risks around the world. She also works to improve public health in Russia. She has won an award for being one of the best economists in the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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How the World Grows
Daria Khaltourina studies how the world's population and economy have grown over time. She uses math to explain these big changes.
She and her team found that until the 1970s, the world's population and wealth grew very, very fast. They called this "hyperbolic growth."
They showed that people and technology help each other grow. More technology means the Earth can support more people. More people mean more inventors, which leads to even faster technology growth. This cycle made both population and wealth grow quickly.
Improving Health in Russia
Daria Khaltourina has also studied health challenges in Russia. She found that certain health issues caused many deaths in Russia after the Soviet Union ended.
She believes that making changes to public health policies can greatly help reduce these health problems. She has suggested ways to improve health, like focusing on certain types of drinks and making sure rules are followed.
In 2014, Daria and her team correctly predicted that death rates in Russia would start to rise again in 2015. This shows how important her research is for understanding public health.
Old Stories, Genes, and History
Daria Khaltourina was one of the first scientists to look at how old myths and stories are connected to our genes. She also studied how these relate to languages and how societies are built.
Her work helps us understand "deep history." This means learning about human history from very, very long ago.
For example, she showed that old stories and genes are linked across huge distances. This helped scientists figure out how people moved from Siberia to the New World thousands of years ago. They used these connections to learn about the myths people carried with them.
Reading, Learning, and Progress
Daria Khaltourina and her colleagues also studied how reading skills helped countries grow. They looked at how different Christian groups encouraged reading.
They found that Protestants were encouraged to read the Bible for themselves. This was different from Catholics, who did not always need to read the Bible. In fact, some old rules even stopped Catholic people from owning Bibles.
Because Protestants needed to read, they often had higher levels of education. When more people can read, they can learn new things and use new ideas. This helps societies become more modern and grow their economies.
Daria's research showed a strong link between early widespread reading and faster economic growth. This means that teaching people to read can help a country become more successful.
Publications
Daria Khaltourina has written over 120 scholarly articles and books. Some of her important works include:
- Introduction to Social Macrodynamics (2006, with Andrey Korotayev and Artemy Malkov).
- The Russian Cross: Factors, Mechanisms, and Ways to Overcome the Demographic Crisis in Russia (2006, with Andrey Korotayev).
- "Effects of Specific Alcohol Control Policy Measures on Alcohol-Related Mortality in Russia from 1998 to 2013" (2015, with Andrey Korotayev).
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"Russian Cross" graph: The black line shows death rates, and the red line shows birth rates.
See also
In Spanish: Daria Jaltúrina para niños
