Land prices and railroad building in European Russia, 1860s to the early 1900s

This paper shows that railroad building in Russia, as in Europe and the US in the nineteenth century, improved the value of land, a classic benefit of transportation investment in largely agrarian countries. From a database constructed for this paper, we use cross-sectional data for...

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Main Authors:	Carol S. Leonard, Zafar Nazarov, Leonid I. Borodkin, Maria A. Karpenko, Roman B. Konchakov
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Voprosy Ekonomiki 2021-07-01
Series:	Russian Journal of Economics
Online Access:	https://rujec.org/article/56600/download/pdf/

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spelling	doaj-ecbeddfbca284a589eebaba286e0160d2021-09-28T14:36:24ZengVoprosy EkonomikiRussian Journal of Economics2405-47392021-07-01729310410.32609/j.ruje.7.5660056600Land prices and railroad building in European Russia, 1860s to the early 1900sCarol S. Leonard0Zafar Nazarov1Leonid I. Borodkin2Maria A. Karpenko3Roman B. Konchakov4University of OxfordPurdue University Fort WayneLomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public AdministrationRussian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administrationdministration This paper shows that railroad building in Russia, as in Europe and the US in the nineteenth century, improved the value of land, a classic benefit of transportation investment in largely agrarian countries. From a database constructed for this paper, we use cross-sectional data for the fifty European Russian regions to show the association of the length of the railroad (measured in 1894), land prices (measured in 1900) and annual growth of land prices (in rubles) for 1885–1910. https://rujec.org/article/56600/download/pdf/
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title	Land prices and railroad building in European Russia, 1860s to the early 1900s
title_short	Land prices and railroad building in European Russia, 1860s to the early 1900s
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description	This paper shows that railroad building in Russia, as in Europe and the US in the nineteenth century, improved the value of land, a classic benefit of transportation investment in largely agrarian countries. From a database constructed for this paper, we use cross-sectional data for the fifty European Russian regions to show the association of the length of the railroad (measured in 1894), land prices (measured in 1900) and annual growth of land prices (in rubles) for 1885–1910.
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Land prices and railroad building in European Russia, 1860s to the early 1900s

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