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Enemies of the People

By Gerhard Toews and Pierre-Louis Vézina

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

The Soviet regime forcedly sent millions of enemies of the people, i.e. the educated elite considered a threat to the regime, to Gulag camps across the USSR. We use this large-scale episode of terror as a natural experiment to provide evidence on the l...

Why Is Productivity Slowing Down?

By Ian Goldin, Pantelis Koutroumpis, François Lafond, and Julian Winkler

Journal of Economic Literature, March 2024

We examine the contribution of different explanations to the slowdown of labor productivity. Comparing the post-2005 period with the preceding decade for five advanced economies, we seek to explain a slowdown of 0.8 to 1.8 pp. No single explanation acco...

New Russian Economic History

By Ekaterina Zhuravskaya Sergei Guriev Andrei Markevich

Journal of Economic Literature, March 2024

This survey discusses recent developments in the growing literature on the economic history of Russia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Using novel data and modern empirical methods, this research provides important lessons for development and ...