Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. 61% of respondents think that firms should exit Russia, regardless of the consequences …

Ukrainians explains up to 77% of famine deaths in the three republics of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus and up to 92% in Ukraine … higher mortality during the 1932-33 Soviet Great Famine. All else equal, famine (excess) mortality rates were positively … ethnicity, rather than the administrative boundaries of the Ukrainian republic, mattered for famine mortality. These and many …

The repeated failure of Ireland's potato crop in the late 1840s led to a major famine and a surge in migration to the … decline in the observable human capital of famine-era Irish migrants compared to pre-famine Irish migrants and to other groups … convergence in that famine-era Irish sons experienced a much smaller gap in occupational status than their fathers. The …

This paper investigates the institutional causes of China's Great Famine. It presents two empirical findings: 1) in … 1959, when the famine began, food production was almost three times more than population subsistence needs; and 2) regions … with higher per capita food production that year suffered higher famine mortality rates, a surprising reversal of a …