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Working Papers

2025

1. Violent Backlash to Political Reform: Evidence from Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the 1905 Russian Revolution
   SocArXiv, Center for Open Science

2020

2. Financing nascent industry: Leverage, politics, and performance in Imperial Russia
   BOFIT Discussion Papers, Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT)
3. The births, lives, and deaths of corporations in late Imperial Russia
   BOFIT Discussion Papers, Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article The Births, Lives and Deaths of Corporations in Late Imperial Russia, The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society (2024) View citations (3) (2024)

2018

4. The slow road from serfdom: Labor coercion and long-run development in the former Russian Empire
   BOFIT Discussion Papers, Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT)
   See also Journal Article The Slow Road from Serfdom: Labor Coercion and Long-Run Development in the Former Russian Empire, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2021) View citations (20) (2021)

2016

5. Capital Structure and Corporate Performance in Late Imperial Russia
   Department of Economics Working Papers, Department of Economics, Williams College
   See also Journal Article Capital structure and corporate performance in late Imperial Russia, European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society (2019) View citations (9) (2019)
6. Collective Action and Representation in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia's Great Reforms
   Department of Economics Working Papers, Department of Economics, Williams College
   See also Journal Article Collective Action and Representation in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia’s Great Reforms, American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press (2018) View citations (10) (2018)
7. Long-Run Consequences of Labor Coercion: Evidence from Russian Serfdom
   Department of Economics Working Papers, Department of Economics, Williams College

2014

8. Understanding the process of Russian serf emancipation
   Working Papers, Economic History Society

2013

9. Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution
   Department of Economics Working Papers, Department of Economics, Williams College
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2012) View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution, The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (2014) View citations (16) (2014)
10. Russian Peasants and Politicians: The Political Economy of Local Agricultural Support in Nizhnii Novgorod Province, 1864-1914
    Department of Economics Working Papers, Department of Economics, Williams College
11. Russian Serfdom, Emancipation, and Land Inequality: New Evidence
    Department of Economics Working Papers, Department of Economics, Williams College View citations (1)

2012

12. Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (28)
    Also in Department of Economics Working Papers, Department of Economics, Williams College (2011)
    See also Journal Article Big BRICs, weak foundations: The beginning of public elementary education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China, Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier (2012) View citations (29) (2012)

2011

13. Micro-Perspectives on Living Standards in Nineteenth-Century Russia
    Department of Economics Working Papers, Department of Economics, Williams College
14. The economic consequences of serfdom and emancipation in Tsarist Russia
    Working Papers, Economic History Society

2008

15. Democracy Under the Tsars? The Case of the Zemstvo
    Department of Economics Working Papers, Department of Economics, Williams College

2007

16. Micro-Perspectives on 19th-century Russian Living Standards
    Department of Economics Working Papers, Department of Economics, Williams College

Journal Articles

2024

1. The Births, Lives and Deaths of Corporations in Late Imperial Russia
   The Economic Journal, 2024, 134, (661), 2041-2070 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper The births, lives, and deaths of corporations in late Imperial Russia, BOFIT Discussion Papers (2020) View citations (1) (2020)

2023

2. Financing industrial corporations in a developing economy: panel evidence from Imperial Russia
   Financial History Review, 2023, 30, (2), 125-161

2021

3. The Slow Road from Serfdom: Labor Coercion and Long-Run Development in the Former Russian Empire
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103, (1), 1-17 View citations (20)
   See also Working Paper The slow road from serfdom: Labor coercion and long-run development in the former Russian Empire, BOFIT Discussion Papers (2018) (2018)

2019

4. Bankers & Bolsheviks: International Finance and the Russian Revolution. By Hassan Malik. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. 318 pp. $35, hardcover
   The Journal of Economic History, 2019, 79, (4), 1200-1203
5. Capital structure and corporate performance in late Imperial Russia
   European Review of Economic History, 2019, 23, (4), 446-481 View citations (9)
   See also Working Paper Capital Structure and Corporate Performance in Late Imperial Russia, Department of Economics Working Papers (2016) (2016)

2018

6. Collective Action and Representation in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia’s Great Reforms
   American Political Science Review, 2018, 112, (1), 125-147 View citations (10)
   See also Working Paper Collective Action and Representation in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia's Great Reforms, Department of Economics Working Papers (2016) (2016)

2017

7. Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. By Sergei Antonov. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. 386. $49.95, hardcover
   The Journal of Economic History, 2017, 77, (4), 1253-1256

2016

8. Communal property rights and land redistributions in Late Tsarist Russia
   Economic History Review, 2016, 69, (3), 773-800 View citations (1)

2015

9. Bread Upon the Waters: The St. Petersburg Grain Trade and the Russian Economy, 1703–1811.. By Robert E. Jones. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2013. Pp. xiv, 298. $45.00, hardcover
   The Journal of Economic History, 2015, 75, (1), 281-282

2014

10. Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution
    The Journal of Economic History, 2014, 74, (3), 767-798 View citations (16)
    See also Working Paper Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution, Department of Economics Working Papers (2013) (2013)

2012

11. Big BRICs, weak foundations: The beginning of public elementary education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China
    Explorations in Economic History, 2012, 49, (2), 221-240 View citations (29)
    See also Working Paper Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China, NBER Working Papers (2012) View citations (28) (2012)
12. Serfdom, Emancipation, and Off-farm Labour Mobility in Tsarist Russia
    Economic History of Developing Regions, 2012, 27, (1), 1-37 View citations (17)

2011

13. Did Ivan's vote matter? The political economy of local democracy in Tsarist Russia
    European Review of Economic History, 2011, 15, (3), 393-441 View citations (13)

2010

14. Peasant communes and factor markets in late nineteenth-century Russia
    Explorations in Economic History, 2010, 47, (4), 381-402 View citations (27)

Chapters

2016

1. Decentralization, Fiscal Structure, and Local State Capacity in Late-Imperial Russia
   Springer