Land prices and railroad building in European Russia, 1860s to the early 1900s
Open Access
- 9 July 2021
- journal article
- Published by NP Voprosy Ekonomiki in Russian Journal of Economics
- Vol. 7 (2), 93-104
- https://doi.org/10.32609/j.ruje.7.56600
Abstract
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.Keywords
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