Research Publications
“The Births, Lives, and Deaths of Corporations in Late Imperial Russia” (with Amanda Gregg), The Economic Journal (forthcoming)
For more information, see our larger project funded by the National Science Foundation.
“Financing Industrial Corporations in a Developing Economy: Panel Evidence from Imperial Russia” (with Amanda Gregg), Financial History Review 30.2 (2023): 125-161.
For more information, see our larger project funded by the National Science Foundation.
“The Slow Road from Serfdom: Labor Coercion and Long-Run Development in the Former Russian Empire” (with Johannes Buggle), The Review of Economics and Statistics 103.1 (2021): 1-17.
“Eastern Europe and the Global Economy, 1800 – 1914,” (with Matthias Morys), in Matthias Morys, ed. The Economic History of Central, East, and South-East Europe, 1800 to the Present Day. London: Routledge, 2021.
“Democratization as a Continuous Choice: A Comment on Acemoglu and Robinson’s Correction to “Why Did the West Extend the Franchise?” (with Paul Dower, Evgeny Finkel and Scott Gelbach), The Journal of Politics 82.2 (2020): 776-780.
“Capital Structure and Corporate Performance in Late Imperial Russia” (with Amanda Gregg), European Review of Economic History 23.4 (2019): 446-481.
For more information, see our larger project funded by the National Science Foundation.
“Collective Action and Representation in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia’s Great Reforms” (with Paul Dower, Evgeny Finkel and Scott Gelbach), American Political Science Review 112.1 (2018): 125-147.
2019 Michael Wallerstein Award, Political Economy Section, American Political Science Association
Honorable Mention, 2019 Best Article, European Politics and Society Division, American Political Science Association
“Quantitative Evidence in Russian Economic History,” Slavic Review 76.1 (2017): 30-36.
“State and Market in Russian Industrialization, 1870-2010” (with Andrei Markevich), in Kevin H. O’Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson, eds., Industrial Growth in the Global Periphery Since 1870. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 33 – 62.
“Decentralization, Fiscal Structure, and Local State Capacity in Late-Imperial Russia,” in Jari Eloranta et al., eds. , Economic History of Warfare and State Formation. London: Springer, 2016. 73-101.
“Communal Property Rights and Land Redistributions in Late-Tsarist Russia,” Economic History Review 69.3 (2016): 773-800.
“Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution” (with Peter Lindert), The Journal of Economic History 74.3 (2014): 767-798.
Earlier version: NBER Working Paper 18383, September 2012.
“Peasants and Politicians: Agricultural Change and Rural Political Institutions in Nizhnii Novgorod Province, 1861-1906” in Ellen Hillbom and Patrick Svensson, eds., Agricultural Transformation in a Global History Perspective. London: Routledge Press, 2013.
"Micro Perspectives on Russian Living Standards, 1750-1917,” (with Tracy Dennison), The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 42.3 (2013): 397-441.
“Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginnings of Public Primary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China, 1880-1930,” (with Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, and Se Yan) Explorations in Economic History 49 (2012): 221-240.
Summary published as “Decentralising Education: Evidence from the BRICs” at www.voxeu.org, March 26, 2012.
Earlier version: NBER Working Paper 17852, February 2012.
“Serfdom, Emancipation, and Off-Farm Labor Mobility in Russia, 1861-1900,” Economic History of Developing Regions 27.1 (2012): 1-37.
Lead article
“Did Ivan’s Vote Matter? The Case of the Zemstvo in Tsarist Russia,” European Review of Economic History 15 (2011): 393-441.
“Peasant Communes and Factor Markets in Late Nineteenth-Century Russia,” Explorations in Economic History 47.4 (2010): 381-402.
Co-Winner, 2011 Explorations Prize for best article published in Explorations in Economic History in the preceding year