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Steven Nafziger

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First Name:Steven
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http://econ.williams.edu/people/snafzige
Terminal Degree:2006 Economics Department; Yale University (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

Economics Department
Williams College

Williamstown, Massachusetts (United States)
http://econ.williams.edu/
RePEc:edi:edwilus (more details at EDIRC)

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Working papers

  1. Amanda Gregg & Steven Nafziger, 2025. "The Russian Empire," Department of Economics Working Papers 2025_111, Department of Economics, Williams College.
  2. Dower, Paul Castañeda & Gehlbach, Scott & Kofanov, Dmitrii & Nafziger, Steven & Novikov, Vladimir, 2025. "Violent Backlash to Political Reform: Evidence from Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the 1905 Russian Revolution," SocArXiv eakus_v1, Center for Open Science.
  3. Gregg, Amanda & Nafziger, Steven, 2020. "The births, lives, and deaths of corporations in late Imperial Russia," BOFIT Discussion Papers 26/2020, Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT).
  4. Gregg, Amanda & Nafziger, Steven, 2020. "Financing nascent industry: Leverage, politics, and performance in Imperial Russia," BOFIT Discussion Papers 7/2020, Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT).
  5. Buggle, Johannes C. & Nafziger, Steven, 2018. "The slow road from serfdom: Labor coercion and long-run development in the former Russian Empire," BOFIT Discussion Papers 22/2018, Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT).
  6. Johannes C. Buggle & Steven Nafziger, 2016. "Long-Run Consequences of Labor Coercion: Evidence from Russian Serfdom," Department of Economics Working Papers 2016-07, Department of Economics, Williams College.
  7. Paul Castañeda Dower & Evgeny Finkel & Scott Gehlbach & Steven Nafziger, 2016. "Collective Action and Representation in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia's Great Reforms," Department of Economics Working Papers 2016-08, Department of Economics, Williams College.
  8. Amanda Gregg & Steven Nafziger, 2016. "Capital Structure and Corporate Performance in Late Imperial Russia," Department of Economics Working Papers 2016-12, Department of Economics, Williams College.
  9. Steven Nafziger, 2014. "Understanding the process of Russian serf emancipation," Working Papers 14011, Economic History Society.
  10. Steven Nafziger, 2013. "Russian Serfdom, Emancipation, and Land Inequality: New Evidence," Department of Economics Working Papers 2013-14, Department of Economics, Williams College.
  11. Steven Nafziger, 2013. "Russian Peasants and Politicians: The Political Economy of Local Agricultural Support in Nizhnii Novgorod Province, 1864-1914," Department of Economics Working Papers 2013-15, Department of Economics, Williams College.
  12. Latika Chaudhary & Aldo Musacchio & Steven Nafziger & Se Yan, 2012. "Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China," NBER Working Papers 17852, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  13. Steven Nafziger & Peter H. Lindert, 2012. "Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution," NBER Working Papers 18383, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  14. Tracy Dennison & Steven Nafziger, 2011. "Micro-Perspectives on Living Standards in Nineteenth-Century Russia," Department of Economics Working Papers 2011-07, Department of Economics, Williams College.
  15. Steven Nafziger, 2011. "The economic consequences of serfdom and emancipation in Tsarist Russia," Working Papers 11024, Economic History Society.
  16. Steven Nafziger, 2008. "Democracy Under the Tsars? The Case of the Zemstvo," Department of Economics Working Papers 2008-23, Department of Economics, Williams College.
  17. Steven Nafziger & Tracy Dennison, 2007. "Micro-Perspectives on 19th-century Russian Living Standards," Department of Economics Working Papers 2007-07, Department of Economics, Williams College.

Articles

  1. Amanda Gregg & Steven Nafziger, 2024. "The Births, Lives and Deaths of Corporations in Late Imperial Russia," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 134(661), pages 2041-2070.
  2. Gregg, Amanda & Nafziger, Steven, 2023. "Financing industrial corporations in a developing economy: panel evidence from Imperial Russia," Financial History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 30(2), pages 125-161, August.
  3. Johannes C. Buggle & Steven Nafziger, 2021. "The Slow Road from Serfdom: Labor Coercion and Long-Run Development in the Former Russian Empire," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 103(1), pages 1-17, March.
  4. Nafziger, Steven, 2019. "Bankers & Bolsheviks: International Finance and the Russian Revolution. By Hassan Malik. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. 318 pp. $35, hardcover," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 79(4), pages 1200-1203, December.
  5. Amanda Gregg & Steven Nafziger, 2019. "Capital structure and corporate performance in late Imperial Russia," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 23(4), pages 446-481.
  6. Dower, Paul Castañeda & Finkel, Evgeny & Gehlbach, Scott & Nafziger, Steven, 2018. "Collective Action and Representation in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia’s Great Reforms," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 112(1), pages 125-147, February.
  7. Nafziger, Steven, 2017. "Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. By Sergei Antonov. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. 386. $49.95, hardcover," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 77(4), pages 1253-1256, December.
  8. Steven Nafziger, 2016. "Communal property rights and land redistributions in Late Tsarist Russia," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 69(3), pages 773-800, August.
  9. Nafziger, Steven, 2015. "Bread Upon the Waters: The St. Petersburg Grain Trade and the Russian Economy, 1703–1811.. By Robert E. Jones. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2013. Pp. xiv, 298. $45.00, hardcover," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 75(1), pages 281-282, March.
  10. Lindert, Peter H. & Nafziger, Steven, 2014. "Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 74(3), pages 767-798, September.
  11. Steven Nafziger, 2012. "Serfdom, Emancipation, and Off-farm Labour Mobility in Tsarist Russia," Economic History of Developing Regions, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(1), pages 1-37.
  12. Chaudhary, Latika & Musacchio, Aldo & Nafziger, Steven & Yan, Se, 2012. "Big BRICs, weak foundations: The beginning of public elementary education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 49(2), pages 221-240.
  13. Nafziger, Steven, 2011. "Did Ivan's vote matter? The political economy of local democracy in Tsarist Russia," European Review of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 15(3), pages 393-441, December.
  14. Nafziger, Steven, 2010. "Peasant communes and factor markets in late nineteenth-century Russia," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 47(4), pages 381-402, October.

Chapters

  1. Steven Nafziger, 2016. "Decentralization, Fiscal Structure, and Local State Capacity in Late-Imperial Russia," Studies in Economic History, in: Jari Eloranta & Eric Golson & Andrei Markevich & Nikolaus Wolf (ed.), Economic History of Warfare and State Formation, pages 73-101, Springer.

Citations

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Blog mentions

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  1. Lindert, Peter H. & Nafziger, Steven, 2014. "Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 74(3), pages 767-798, September.

    Mentioned in:

    1. Soviet and Russian Inequality: Was the Soviet System Pro-Poor? by Mark Harrison
      by Mark Harrison in Mark Harrison's blog on 2017-10-13 13:44:00

Working papers

  1. Gregg, Amanda & Nafziger, Steven, 2020. "The births, lives, and deaths of corporations in late Imperial Russia," BOFIT Discussion Papers 26/2020, Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT).

    Cited by:

    1. Lychakov, Nikita, 2024. "Corporations and partnerships: Factory productivity in late Imperial Russia," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
    2. Cihan Artunç, 2024. "Legal origins of corporate governance: Choice of law in Egypt, 1887–1914," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 77(1), pages 3-40, February.
    3. Süße, Marvin & Grigoriadis, Theocharis, 2025. "Financing late industrialization evidence from the State Bank of the Russian Empire," Discussion Papers 2025/2, Free University Berlin, School of Business & Economics.

  2. Buggle, Johannes C. & Nafziger, Steven, 2018. "The slow road from serfdom: Labor coercion and long-run development in the former Russian Empire," BOFIT Discussion Papers 22/2018, Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT).

    Cited by:

    1. Cao, June & Ee, Mong Shan & Hasan, Iftekhar & Huang, He, 2024. "Asymmetric reactions of abnormal audit fees jump to credit rating changes," The British Accounting Review, Elsevier, vol. 56(2).
    2. Ekaterina Zhuravskaya & Sergei Guriev & Andrei Markevich, 2023. "New Russian Economic History," PSE Working Papers halshs-04316019, HAL.
    3. Viktor Malein, 2021. "Human Capital and Industrialization: German Settlers in Late Imperial Russia," Working Papers 0221, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
    4. Hup, Mark, 2024. "Labor coercion, fiscal modernization, and state capacity: Evidence from colonial Indonesia," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
    5. Broadberry, Stephen & Korchmina, Elena, 2022. "Catching-up and falling behind : Russian economic growth,1690s-1880s," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 626, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    6. Oyenubi, Adeola & Kollamparambil, Umakrishnan, 2023. "Does noncompliance with COVID-19 regulations impact the depressive symptoms of others?," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 120(C).
    7. Libman, Alexander & Popova, Olga, 2022. "Children of Communism: The Former Party Membership and Demand for Redistribution," IZA Discussion Papers 15816, IZA Network @ LISER.
    8. Jung, Yeonha, 2023. "Formation of the legacy of slavery: Evidence from the US South," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 154(C).
    9. Mario Carillo & Gemma Dipoppa & Shanker Satyanath, 2023. "Fascist ideology and migrant labor exploitation," Economics Working Papers 1865, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
    10. Timur Natkhov & Natalia Vasilenok, 2023. "Ethnic‐specific infant care practices and infant mortality in late Imperial Russia," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 76(3), pages 783-806, August.
    11. Sezer, Ayse Hazal, 2023. "Convicts and Comrades : Coerced Labor’s Impact on Early Labor Unions," Other publications TiSEM 98f91e6a-8e47-4c1f-bc84-a, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
    12. Gerda Asmus & Raphaël Franck, 2022. "State Capacity, National Economic Policies and Local Development: The Russian State in the Southern Urals," CESifo Working Paper Series 9616, CESifo.
    13. Andrea Bernini, 2023. "The voice of radio in the battle for equal rights: Evidence from the U.S. South," Economics and Politics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 35(1), pages 163-226, March.
    14. Lonsky, Jakub, 2025. "Gulags, crime, and elite violence: Origins and consequences of the Russian mafia," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 246(C).
    15. Kravtsova, Maria & Libman, Alexander, 2023. "Historical family structure as a predictor of liberal voting: Evidence from a century of Russian history," Economic Systems, Elsevier, vol. 47(2).
    16. Andrea Matranga & Timur Natkhov, 2025. "All Along the Watchtower: Military Landholders and Serfdom Consolidation in Early Modern Russia," Carlo Alberto Notebooks 735 JEL Classification: N, Collegio Carlo Alberto.
    17. Natkhov, Timur & Pyle, William, 2023. "Revealed in transition: The political effect of planning's legacy," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 159(C).
    18. Mario Carillo & Gemma Dipoppa & Shanker Satyanath, 2023. "Fascist Ideology and Migrant Labor Exploitation," Working Papers 1395, Barcelona School of Economics.
    19. Elena Korchmina & Mikołaj Malinowski, 2024. "How extractive was Russian Serfdom? Income inequality in Moscow Province in the early 19th century," Working Papers 0266, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
    20. Matthias Morys, 2022. "Has Eastern Europe Always Lagged Behind the West? Historical Evidence from Pre‐1870," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 68(S1), pages 3-21, April.
    21. Menuet, Maxime & Parent, Antoine, 2025. "An economic theory of the Soviet system," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 118(C).
    22. Didenko, Dmitry, 2023. "How demographic shocks affected the productionfactor income and the institutional path of the Russian pre-industrial economy," Russian Peasant Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, vol. 8, pages 6-20.

  3. Paul Castañeda Dower & Evgeny Finkel & Scott Gehlbach & Steven Nafziger, 2016. "Collective Action and Representation in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia's Great Reforms," Department of Economics Working Papers 2016-08, Department of Economics, Williams College.

    Cited by:

    1. Apoorva Lal & Mac Lockhart & Yiqing Xu & Ziwen Zu, 2023. "How Much Should We Trust Instrumental Variable Estimates in Political Science? Practical Advice Based on Over 60 Replicated Studies," Papers 2303.11399, arXiv.org, revised Nov 2023.
    2. Jack Paine, 2024. "A comment on Powell and formal models of power sharing ," Journal of Theoretical Politics, , vol. 36(2), pages 212-233, April.
    3. Pearce Edwards, 2021. "The politics of nonviolent mobilization: Campaigns, competition, and social movement resources," Journal of Peace Research, Peace Research Institute Oslo, vol. 58(5), pages 945-961, September.
    4. Ekaterina Zhuravskaya & Sergei Guriev & Andrei Markevich, 2023. "New Russian Economic History," PSE Working Papers halshs-04316019, HAL.
    5. María Angelica Bautista & Felipe González & Luis R. Martínez & Pablo Muñoz & Mounu Prem, 2018. "The Geography of Repression and Support for Democracy: Evidence from the Pinochet Dictatorship," Working papers 5, Red Investigadores de Economía.
    6. Gerda Asmus & Raphaël Franck, 2022. "State Capacity, National Economic Policies and Local Development: The Russian State in the Southern Urals," CESifo Working Paper Series 9616, CESifo.
    7. Andrei Markevich & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, 2017. "The Economic Effects of the Abolition of Serfdom: Evidence from the Russian Empire," Working Papers w0237, New Economic School (NES).
    8. Robert Powell, 2024. "Power sharing with weak institutions ∗," Journal of Theoretical Politics, , vol. 36(2), pages 186-211, April.
    9. Nobel Prize Committee, 2024. "Scientific Background to the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024," Nobel Prize in Economics documents 2024-2, Nobel Prize Committee.

  4. Amanda Gregg & Steven Nafziger, 2016. "Capital Structure and Corporate Performance in Late Imperial Russia," Department of Economics Working Papers 2016-12, Department of Economics, Williams College.

    Cited by:

    1. Emilie Bonhoure, 2021. "An Original Solution to Agency Issues Among PreWWI Paris-Listed Firms : The Statutory Rule of Profit Allocation," PSE Working Papers halshs-03107869, HAL.
    2. Emilie Bonhoure, 2021. "An Original Solution to Agency Issues Among PreWWI Paris-Listed Firms : The Statutory Rule of Profit Allocation," Working Papers halshs-03107869, HAL.
    3. Süße, Marvin & Grigoriadis, Theocharis, 2025. "Financing late industrialization evidence from the State Bank of the Russian Empire," Discussion Papers 2025/2, Free University Berlin, School of Business & Economics.
    4. Tomihiro Machikita & Tetsuji Okazaki, 2019. "Transition to a Modern Regime and Change in PlantLifecycles: A Natural Experiment from Meiji Japan," CIRJE F-Series CIRJE-F-1122, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo.
    5. Gregg, Amanda & Nafziger, Steven, 2020. "Financing nascent industry: Leverage, politics, and performance in Imperial Russia," BOFIT Discussion Papers 7/2020, Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT).
    6. Tomohiro Machikita & Tetsuji Okazaki, 2019. "Transition to a Modern Regime and Change in Plant Lifecycles: A Natural Experiment from Meiji Japan," CIGS Working Paper Series 19-006E, The Canon Institute for Global Studies.
    7. Burhop Carsten & Selgert Felix, 2026. "Dividend Policy: An Empirical Analysis for Imperial Germany," German Economic Review, De Gruyter, vol. 27(1), pages 1-35.
    8. Natkhov, Timur & Vasilenok, Natalia, 2021. "Skilled immigrants and technology adoption: Evidence from the German settlements in the Russian empire," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).

  5. Steven Nafziger, 2013. "Russian Serfdom, Emancipation, and Land Inequality: New Evidence," Department of Economics Working Papers 2013-14, Department of Economics, Williams College.

    Cited by:

    1. Johannes C. Buggle & Steven Nafziger, 2016. "Long-Run Consequences of Labor Coercion: Evidence from Russian Serfdom," Department of Economics Working Papers 2016-07, Department of Economics, Williams College.

  6. Latika Chaudhary & Aldo Musacchio & Steven Nafziger & Se Yan, 2012. "Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China," NBER Working Papers 17852, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Cited by:

    1. Jiwei Qian & Tuan‐Hwee Sng, 2021. "The state in Chinese economic history," Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 61(3), pages 359-395, November.
    2. Chankseliani, Maia, 2014. "Are we using Friedman's roadmap? A comparative analysis of stimuli of private school enrolments in post-Soviet countries," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 38(C), pages 13-21.
    3. Steven Nafziger & Peter H. Lindert, 2012. "Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution," NBER Working Papers 18383, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    4. Daniel Lopes & Geraldo Silva Filho & Leonardo Monasterio, 2025. "From past to present: ancestry and student achievement in Brazil," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 68(1), pages 165-212, January.
    5. Rafael Barquín & Pedro Pérez & Basilio Sanz, 2016. "Literacy in Spain in the 19th century: An econometric analysis," Documentos de Trabajo (DT-AEHE) 1615, Asociación Española de Historia Económica.
    6. Paola Azar, 2022. "Politics as a determinant of primary school provision: the case of Uruguay," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 16(2), pages 333-367, May.
    7. Marchingiglio, Riccardo, 2021. "Local institutions and public school spending under restricted suffrage: The case of post-unitary Italy," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 188(C), pages 1351-1373.
    8. C. Dannemann & Erkan Goeren, 2018. "The Educational Burden of ADHD: Evidence From Student Achievement Test Scores," Working Papers V-408-18, University of Oldenburg, Department of Economics, revised Apr 2018.
    9. Paola Azar & Sergio Espuelas, 2021. "Democracy and primary education spending in Spain, 1902-22," UB School of Economics Working Papers 2021/409, University of Barcelona School of Economics.
    10. Bogart, Dan, 2022. "Infrastructure and institutions: Lessons from history," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
    11. Cvrcek, Tomas & Zajicek, Miroslav, 2019. "The making of a liberal education: Political economy of the Austrian school reform, 1865 – 1880," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 1-1.
    12. Bowe, Anica G., 2015. "The development of education indicators for measuring quality in the English-speaking Caribbean: How far have we come?," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 48(C), pages 31-46.
    13. Francesco Cinnirella & Ruth Maria Schüler, 2016. "Nation Building: The Role of Central Spending in Education," CESifo Working Paper Series 6103, CESifo.
    14. Francesco Cinnirella & Ruth Maria Schüler, 2016. "The Cost of Decentralization: Linguistic Polarization and the Provision of Education," CESifo Working Paper Series 5894, CESifo.
    15. Andrabi,Tahir & Das,Jishnu & Khwaja,Asim Ijaz, 2015. "Delivering education : a pragmatic framework for improving education in low-income countries," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7277, The World Bank.
    16. Roy, Tirthankar, 2019. "State capacity and the economic history of colonial India," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 100723, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    17. Koumparoulis, Dimitrios Nikolaou, 2014. "BRICs versus Other Emerging Economies: The Case of India," MPRA Paper 54388, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    18. Paola Azar Dufrechou, 2018. "Electoral politics and the diffusion of primary schooling: evidence from Uruguay, 1914-1954," Working Papers wpdea1801, Department of Applied Economics at Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona.
    19. Latika Chaudhary & Manuj Garg, 2015. "Does history matter? Colonial education investments in India," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 68(3), pages 937-961, August.
    20. Bharti, Nitin Kumar & Li, Yang, 2024. "The making of China and India in the 21st Century: Long-run human capital a accumulation from 1900 to 2020," ZEW Discussion Papers 24-078, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
    21. Tomas Cvrcek & Miroslav Zajicek, 2013. "School, what is it good for? Useful Human Capital and the History of Public Education in Central Europe," NBER Working Papers 19690, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    22. Ehrl, Philipp & Monteiro Monasterio, Leonardo, 2016. "Historical trades, skills and agglomeration economies," MPRA Paper 69829, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    23. Ruth Maria Schüler, 2018. "Education Economics from a Historical Perspective," ifo Beiträge zur Wirtschaftsforschung, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, number 78, October.
    24. Tomas Cvrcek & Miroslav Zajicek, 2019. "The rise of public schooling in nineteenth-century Imperial Austria: Who gained and who paid?," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 13(3), pages 367-403, September.
    25. Shaoda Wang & Boxiao Zhang, 2023. "Buddha's grace illuminates all: Temple destruction, school construction and modernization in 20th century China," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 90(360), pages 1335-1361, October.
    26. Harrison, Mark & Markevich, Andrei, 2012. "Russia’s Home Front, 1914-1922: The Economy," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 74, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    27. Gabriele Cappelli, 2013. "Escaping from a human capital trap? Italy’s regions and the move to centralized primary schooling, 1861 - 1936," Department of Economics University of Siena 688, Department of Economics, University of Siena.

  7. Steven Nafziger & Peter H. Lindert, 2012. "Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution," NBER Working Papers 18383, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Cited by:

    1. Filip Novokmet & Thomas Piketty & Gabriel Zucman, 2018. "From Soviets to oligarchs: inequality and property in Russia 1905-2016," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 16(2), pages 189-223, June.
    2. Marcin Wroński, 2023. "Income distribution in Warsaw in the 1830s," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 27(4), pages 581-605.
    3. Popov, Vladimir, 2024. "Китайская Модель: Ретроспектива И Перспектива [The Chinese model: Retrospective and perspective]," MPRA Paper 121802, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Ekaterina Zhuravskaya & Sergei Guriev & Andrei Markevich, 2024. "New Russian Economic History," Sciences Po Economics Publications (main) hal-03874282, HAL.
    5. Süße, Marvin & Grigoriadis, Theocharis, 2025. "Financing late industrialization evidence from the State Bank of the Russian Empire," Discussion Papers 2025/2, Free University Berlin, School of Business & Economics.
    6. Erfurth, Philipp Emanuel & León, María Gómez & Gabbuti, Giacomo & Milanovic, Branko, 2026. "Historical Social Tables: Advantages, Methodology, and Problems," SocArXiv 5nsqm_v1, Center for Open Science.
    7. Lychakov, Nikita, 2019. "From financial crisis to revolution: Russia 1899-1905," MPRA Paper 95166, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    8. Nikolić, Stefan & Novokmet, Filip & Larysz, Piotr Paweł, 2024. "Income inequality in Eastern Europe: Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in the twentieth century," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
    9. Milanovic, Branko, 2024. "How rich were the rich? An empirically-based taxonomy of pre-industrial bases of wealth," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 93(C).
    10. Castañeda Dower, Paul & Markevich, Andrei, 2025. "Did Industrialization increase support for the radical left? Evidence from the 1917 Russian revolution," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 53(4), pages 884-915.
    11. Popov, Vladimir & Konchakov, Roman & Didenko, Dmitry, 2023. "Factors of social tension in the provinces of the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries," MPRA Paper 118464, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    12. Maria Gomez Leon & Giacomo Gabbuti, 2022. "Wars, Depression, and Fascism: Income Inequality in Italy, 1900-1950," LEM Papers Series 2022/26, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
    13. Jørgen Modalsli, 2016. "The regional dispersion of income inequality in nineteenth-century Norway," Discussion Papers 842, Statistics Norway, Research Department.
    14. Elena Korchmina & Mikołaj Malinowski, 2024. "How extractive was Russian Serfdom? Income inequality in Moscow Province in the early 19th century," Working Papers 0266, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
    15. Milanovic, Branko, 2013. "The inequality possibility frontier : extensions and new applications," Policy Research Working Paper Series 6449, The World Bank.
    16. Steven Nafziger & Peter Lindert, 2011. "Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution," Department of Economics Working Papers 2013-13, Department of Economics, Williams College, revised Sep 2013.
    17. Peter H. Lindert & Jeffrey G. Williamson, 2017. "Inequality in the very long run: Malthus, Kuznets, and Ohlin," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 11(3), pages 289-295, September.

  8. Tracy Dennison & Steven Nafziger, 2011. "Micro-Perspectives on Living Standards in Nineteenth-Century Russia," Department of Economics Working Papers 2011-07, Department of Economics, Williams College.

    Cited by:

    1. Natalia A. Rozinskaya & Dmitry V. Artamonov, 2025. "Microanalysis of Peasant Households in the Era of Modernization: Evidence from the Russian Empire," Population and Economics, ARPHA Platform, vol. 9(3), pages 60-79, October.

Articles

  1. Amanda Gregg & Steven Nafziger, 2024. "The Births, Lives and Deaths of Corporations in Late Imperial Russia," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 134(661), pages 2041-2070.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  2. Gregg, Amanda & Nafziger, Steven, 2023. "Financing industrial corporations in a developing economy: panel evidence from Imperial Russia," Financial History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 30(2), pages 125-161, August.

    Cited by:

    1. Burhop Carsten & Selgert Felix, 2026. "Dividend Policy: An Empirical Analysis for Imperial Germany," German Economic Review, De Gruyter, vol. 27(1), pages 1-35.

  3. Johannes C. Buggle & Steven Nafziger, 2021. "The Slow Road from Serfdom: Labor Coercion and Long-Run Development in the Former Russian Empire," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 103(1), pages 1-17, March.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  4. Amanda Gregg & Steven Nafziger, 2019. "Capital structure and corporate performance in late Imperial Russia," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 23(4), pages 446-481.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  5. Dower, Paul Castañeda & Finkel, Evgeny & Gehlbach, Scott & Nafziger, Steven, 2018. "Collective Action and Representation in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia’s Great Reforms," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 112(1), pages 125-147, February.
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  6. Steven Nafziger, 2016. "Communal property rights and land redistributions in Late Tsarist Russia," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 69(3), pages 773-800, August.

    Cited by:

    1. Amos Nadan, 2021. "Reconsidering peasant communes in the Levant, c. 1850s–1940s," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 74(1), pages 34-59, February.
    2. Malein, Viktor, 2025. "The economic power of elites, human capital, and industrial change in late Imperial Russia," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 97(C).

  7. Lindert, Peter H. & Nafziger, Steven, 2014. "Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 74(3), pages 767-798, September.
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  8. Steven Nafziger, 2012. "Serfdom, Emancipation, and Off-farm Labour Mobility in Tsarist Russia," Economic History of Developing Regions, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(1), pages 1-37.

    Cited by:

    1. Quamrul H. Ashraf & Francesco Cinnirella & Oded Galor & Boris Gershman & Erik Hornung, 2017. "Capital-Skill Complementarity and the Emergence of Labor Emancipation," CESifo Working Paper Series 6423, CESifo.
    2. Abdul-Wadood Moomen & Pierre Lacroix & Michela Bertolotto & David Jensen, 2020. "The Drive towards Consensual Perspectives for Enhancing Sustainable Mining," Resources, MDPI, vol. 9(12), pages 1-16, December.
    3. Sharp, Paul & Jensen, Peter & Radu, Cristina Victoria & Severgnini, Battista, 2018. "The introduction of serfdom and labor markets," CEPR Discussion Papers 13303, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    4. Markevich, Andrei & Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina, 2015. "Economic Effects of the Abolition of Serfdom: Evidence from the Russian Empire," CEPREMAP Working Papers (Docweb) 1502, CEPREMAP.
    5. Kufenko, Vadim & Khaustova, Ekaterina & Geloso, Vincent, 2022. "Escape underway: Malthusian pressures in late imperial Moscow," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    6. Buggle, Johannes C. & Nafziger, Steven, 2018. "The slow road from serfdom: Labor coercion and long-run development in the former Russian Empire," BOFIT Discussion Papers 22/2018, Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT).
    7. Alexander Opitz, 2018. "“Comrades, Let's March!”.† The Revolution of 1905 and its impact on financial markets," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 22(1), pages 28-52.
    8. Maria Waldinger, 2015. "The economic effects of long-term climate change: evidence from the little ice age," GRI Working Papers 214, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
    9. Elena Korchmina & Mikołaj Malinowski, 2024. "How extractive was Russian Serfdom? Income inequality in Moscow Province in the early 19th century," Working Papers 0266, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
    10. Malein, Viktor, 2025. "The economic power of elites, human capital, and industrial change in late Imperial Russia," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 97(C).

  9. Chaudhary, Latika & Musacchio, Aldo & Nafziger, Steven & Yan, Se, 2012. "Big BRICs, weak foundations: The beginning of public elementary education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 49(2), pages 221-240.
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  10. Nafziger, Steven, 2011. "Did Ivan's vote matter? The political economy of local democracy in Tsarist Russia," European Review of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 15(3), pages 393-441, December.

    Cited by:

    1. Becker, Sascha O. & Hornung, Erik, 2019. "The Political Economy of the Prussian Three-class Franchise," The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) 1223, University of Warwick, Department of Economics.
    2. Viktor Malein, 2021. "Human Capital and Industrialization: German Settlers in Late Imperial Russia," Working Papers 0221, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
    3. Tommy Krieger, 2022. "Elites and Health Infrastructure Improvements in Industrializing Regimes," CESifo Working Paper Series 9808, CESifo.
    4. Steven Nafziger & Peter H. Lindert, 2012. "Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution," NBER Working Papers 18383, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    5. Cvrcek, Tomas & Zajicek, Miroslav, 2019. "The making of a liberal education: Political economy of the Austrian school reform, 1865 – 1880," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 1-1.
    6. Chaudhary, Latika & Musacchio, Aldo & Nafziger, Steven & Yan, Se, 2012. "Big BRICs, weak foundations: The beginning of public elementary education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 49(2), pages 221-240.
    7. Steven Nafziger, 2013. "Russian Peasants and Politicians: The Political Economy of Local Agricultural Support in Nizhnii Novgorod Province, 1864-1914," Department of Economics Working Papers 2013-15, Department of Economics, Williams College.
    8. Tomas Cvrcek & Miroslav Zajicek, 2019. "The rise of public schooling in nineteenth-century Imperial Austria: Who gained and who paid?," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 13(3), pages 367-403, September.
    9. Johannes C. Buggle & Steven Nafziger, 2021. "The Slow Road from Serfdom: Labor Coercion and Long-Run Development in the Former Russian Empire," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 103(1), pages 1-17, March.

  11. Nafziger, Steven, 2010. "Peasant communes and factor markets in late nineteenth-century Russia," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 47(4), pages 381-402, October.

    Cited by:

    1. Jörg Baten & Mikołaj Szołtysek, 2014. "A golden age before serfdom? The human capital of Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe in the 17th-19th centuries," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2014-008, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
    2. Guillem Blasco-Piles, 2025. "The Great Inner Divergence: TFP and Manufacturing Dualism in Industrializing Empires before WWI," Working Papers 0291, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
    3. Amanda Gregg, 2014. "Factory productivity and the concession system of incorporation in late Imperial Russia, 1894-1908," Working Papers 14012, Economic History Society.
    4. Ekaterina Zhuravskaya & Sergei Guriev & Andrei Markevich, 2023. "New Russian Economic History," PSE Working Papers halshs-04316019, HAL.
    5. Paul Castaneda Dower & Andrei Markevich, 2013. "Labor Surplus and Mass Mobilization: Russian Agriculture during the Great War," Working Papers w0196, Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR).
    6. Viktor Malein, 2021. "Human Capital and Industrialization: German Settlers in Late Imperial Russia," Working Papers 0221, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
    7. Aldashev, Gani & Guirkinger, Catherine, 2017. "Colonization and changing social structure: Evidence from Kazakhstan," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 127(C), pages 413-430.
    8. Steven Nafziger & Peter H. Lindert, 2012. "Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution," NBER Working Papers 18383, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    9. Steven Nafziger, 2016. "Communal property rights and land redistributions in Late Tsarist Russia," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 69(3), pages 773-800, August.
    10. Timur Natkhov & Natalia Vasilenok, 2019. "Technology Adoption in Agrarian Societies: the Effect of Volga Germans in Imperial Russia," HSE Working papers WP BRP 220/EC/2019, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
    11. Markevich, Andrei & Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina, 2015. "Economic Effects of the Abolition of Serfdom: Evidence from the Russian Empire," CEPREMAP Working Papers (Docweb) 1502, CEPREMAP.
    12. Gani Aldashev & Catherine Guirkinger, 2016. "Colonization and Changing Social Structure: Kazakhstan 1896-1910," Working Papers ECARES ECARES 2016-10, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    13. Paul Castaneda Dower & Andrei Markevich, 2017. "Labor Misallocation and Mass Mobilization: Russian Agriculture during the Great War," Working Papers w0238, Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR).
    14. Natkhov, Timur & Vasilenok, Natalia, 2021. "Skilled immigrants and technology adoption: Evidence from the German settlements in the Russian empire," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    15. Baten Joerg & Szołtysek Mikołaj & Campestrini Monica, 2017. "“Girl Power” in Eastern Europe? The human capital development of Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries and its determinants," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 21(1), pages 29-63.
    16. Vincent Geloso, 2023. "Unenlightened peasants? Farming techniques among French-Canadians, circa 1851," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 17(2), pages 341-363, May.
    17. James Fenske, 2012. "Imachi Nkwu: Trade and the commons," CSAE Working Paper Series 2012-19, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
    18. Kukic, Leonard, 2021. "Technical change and the postwar slowdown in Soviet economic growth," IFCS - Working Papers in Economic History.WH 33259, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Figuerola.
    19. Jörg Baten & Mikołaj Szołtysek, 2012. "The human capital of Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe in European perspective," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2012-002, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.

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  1. NEP-CIS: Confederation of Independent States (13) 2009-04-25 2011-07-13 2011-07-13 2012-02-27 2012-09-22 2013-10-18 2013-10-18 2016-12-04 2016-12-04 2016-12-04 2025-06-16 2026-03-23 2026-03-23. Author is listed
  2. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic and Financial History (13) 2009-04-25 2011-07-13 2011-07-13 2012-02-27 2012-09-22 2013-10-18 2013-10-18 2016-12-04 2016-12-04 2016-12-04 2025-06-16 2026-03-23 2026-03-23. Author is listed
  3. NEP-CWA: Central and Western Asia (3) 2012-09-22 2013-10-18 2013-10-18
  4. NEP-TRA: Transition Economics (3) 2011-07-13 2011-07-13 2012-09-22
  5. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (2) 2011-07-13 2012-02-27
  6. NEP-POL: Positive Political Economics (2) 2013-10-18 2016-12-04
  7. NEP-ACC: Accounting and Auditing (1) 2016-12-04
  8. NEP-AGR: Agricultural Economics (1) 2013-10-18
  9. NEP-GRO: Economic Growth (1) 2016-12-04
  10. NEP-LTV: Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty (1) 2012-09-22

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