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The Stolypin agrarian reform and peasant migration

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  • Andrei Markevich

    (University of Warwick)

  • Eugenia Chernina

    (Toulouse School of Economics)

  • Paul Castañeda Dower

    (New Economic School Moscow)

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"Liquidity constraints influence the migration decision, but their importance is difficult to test. The Stolypin agrarian reform in Russia provides a unique natural experiment that exogenously varies liquidity constraints. The reform gives the peasant the right to withdraw from the commune and to sell one's share of land. Peasant households could then take this opportunity to migrate. Since the reform did not affect all communes, we can employ difference-in-differences analysis on a panel of regional migration data from 1901-1914. Our results show that the relaxing of liquidity constraints explains at least 15% of all migration during this period."

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  • Andrei Markevich & Eugenia Chernina & Paul Castañeda Dower, 2011. "The Stolypin agrarian reform and peasant migration," Working Papers 11022, Economic History Society.
    • Handle: RePEc:ehs:wpaper:11022
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    JEL classification:

    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
    • N33 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Europe: Pre-1913
    • N53 - Economic History - - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Extractive Industries - - - Europe: Pre-1913
    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products

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