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late Imperial Russia. The reform allowed peasants to obtain land titles and consolidate separated land strips into single …We study the effect of changes in land tenure, launched by the 1906 Stolypin reform, on agricultural productivity in … allotments. Our estimations suggest that the net effect of the reform on land productivity was positive, mainly due to land …
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The paper explores the effect of migration of Russian settlers on the intra-regional development in Kazakhstan. We use the 1897 census dataset of the Russian Empire and modern economic data to provide links between Russian settlements in Kazakhstan in 1897 and the current level of economic...
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This paper shows that railroad building in Russia, as in Europe and the US in the nineteenth century, improved the …
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We explore the impact of encomienda, a forced-labor institution imposed by the Spanish throughout Latin America during three centuries, on long-term development outcomes in Colombia. Despite being a classically extractive institution, municipalities that had encomiendas in 1560 have higher...
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We exploit a quasi-natural experiment of mobilized draftees in Russia during World War I to examine the effects of a …
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