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Land Tenure and Productivity in Agriculture: The Case of the Stolypin Reform in Late Imperial Russia

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  • Paul Castaneda Dower

    (New Economic School and Centre of Economic and Financial Research)

  • Andrei Markevich

    (New Economic School and University of Warwick)

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We study the effect of improvements in peasants’ land tenure, launched by the Stolypin reform, on agricultural productivity in late imperial Russia. The reform allowed peasants to obtain land titles and consolidate plots. We find that land consolidations increased productivity. We argue that changes in peasant de facto land usage rights caused this effect. In contrast, the titling component of the reform was associated with a decrease in land productivity. We present evidence that this negative effect was driven by transaction costs to exit the commune and the outflow of labor from the countryside.

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  • Paul Castaneda Dower & Andrei Markevich, 2013. "Land Tenure and Productivity in Agriculture: The Case of the Stolypin Reform in Late Imperial Russia," Working Papers w0202, New Economic School (NES).
    • Handle: RePEc:abo:neswpt:w0202
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    1. Andrei Markevich & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, 2018. "The Economic Effects of the Abolition of Serfdom: Evidence from the Russian Empire," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 108(4-5), pages 1074-1117, April.
    2. Vladimir Trukhachev & Anna Ivolga & Marina Lescheva, 2014. "Enhancement of Land Tenure Relations as a Factor of Sustainable Agricultural Development: Case of Stavropol Krai, Russia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 7(1), pages 1-16, December.
    3. Castañeda Dower, Paul & Markevich, Andrei, 2014. "A history of resistance to privatization in Russia," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 42(4), pages 855-873.

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