Candidate of historical sciences, 2002
Full Professor
Department of economics
Courses taught at NES: Economic History, Russian Economic History, Principles of Economics, Research Seminar
Research Interests: Economic History
Recent Publications:
“Economic Effects of the Abolition of Serfdom: Evidence from the Russian Empire,” with Ekaterina Zhuravskaya. The American Economic Review, 2018, 108(4-5): 1074-1117.
“Labor Misallocation and Mass Mobilization: Russian Agriculture during the Great War,” with Paul Castaneda Dower. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100(2): 245-59.
“The Stolypin Reform and Agricultural Productivity in Late Imperial Russia,” with Paul Castañeda Dower. European Review of Economic History. 2019, 23(3): 241-267.
Working papers:
“A Regional Perspective on the Economic Development of the late Russian Empire”.
“The Value of a Statistical Life in a Dictatorship: Evidence from Stalin”, with Paul Castañeda Dower and Shlomo Weber.
“Democratic Support for the Bolshevik Revolution: an Empirical Investigations of 1917 Constituent Assembly Elections,” with Paul Castañeda Dower.
“The Political Legacy of the Gulag Archipelago,” with Natalia Kapelko.