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Land titling and Industrial Development: the case of the Stolypin reform
Toronto, Canada 23 June 2022 – 25 June 2022
Igor Kolesnikov (Higher School of Economics); Vladimir Novikov (Higher School of Economics)
Political science / Institutions and organizations in political economy
Abstract
We study the effect of the land titling on industrial development, using the case of the Stolypin reform in Late Imperial Russia. We make use of the unique city-level dataset to estimate the effect of the reform implementation on industrialization as such, industrial productivity and factories size. During the first years of the reform, it procreated a major labor shock with ambivalent direct and spillover effects on industrial development.