Research Publications

“The Births, Lives, and Deaths of Corporations in Late Imperial Russia” (with Amanda Gregg), The Economic Journal (forthcoming)


“Financing Industrial Corporations in a Developing Economy: Panel Evidence from Imperial Russia” (with Amanda Gregg), Financial History Review 30.2 (2023): 125-161.


“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“Serfdom, Emancipation, and Off-Farm Labor Mobility in Russia, 1861-1900,” Economic History of Developing Regions 27.1 (2012): 1-37.

“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.