🇷🇺 **How Extractive Was Russian Serfdom? Income Inequality in Moscow Province in the Early Nineteenth Century**

"_Our findings reveal that serfdom resulted in high inequality and extraction levels as well as low social mobility despite of low levels of enforcement by the state. We compare our results with those for 1904 and find that, in spite of emancipation, inequality remained high during the nineteenth century._"

Korchmina, E. and Malinowski, M. (2026) ‘How Extractive Was Russian Serfdom? Income Inequality in Moscow Province in the Early Nineteenth Century’, The Journal of Economic History, pp. 1–42. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050725101071.

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