Why do newer cities promise higher wages in Russia?

Skorobogatov, Alexander S.

doi:10.1016/j.jue.2017.12.003

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“…Moreover, we observe continuities even when controlling for the year of foundation to account for the phenomenon of new cities (only significant for living space). New cities, despite being richer and better-off than older established ones (Skorobogatov, 2018), became typical for their size and region in terms of housing.…”

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Continuities and discontinuities of Russian urban housing: The Soviet housing experiment in historical long-term perspective

Kalyukin

Kohl

2019

Urban Studies

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Did the socialist experiment disrupt continuity in Russian urban housing? Based on a unique collection of urban data covering several hundred Russian cities and spanning three regimes across more than a century, this paper gives a nuanced account of continuities and discontinuities of housing in post-Soviet cities. Three main housing characteristics are analysed: urban density (persons per building and living space per capita), ownership structure and the modernisation of stock (building material and provision with amenities). Although all Russian cities underwent a number of major shocks and regime changes during the course of the 20th century, their rankings with regard to these three key housing characteristics are still significantly correlated over time, whereas living space per capita is largely uncorrelated over time. This holds true despite significant convergence processes in almost all dimensions and also when including contemporary control variables. We hypothesise that local or regional building traditions, regional differentiation in Soviet urban planning as well as Soviet land use specificities could explain differential growth across cities. Going beyond existing late-Soviet-legacy timeframes, the long-term perspective reveals that even major regime shocks did not completely erase regionally shaped patterns in housing conditions.

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Section: Discussion: Hypothesising About Continuitiesmentioning

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Continuities and discontinuities of Russian urban housing: The Soviet housing experiment in historical long-term perspective

Kalyukin

Kohl

2019

Urban Studies

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“…For the other controls, as follows from the literature, they are also potential covariates for alcohol use, drinking patterns, and alcohol mortality. This is true for economic conditions including income, prices, and their determinants (Cook & Peters, 2005;Dee, 2001;Johansson et al, 2006;Kolosnitsyna et al, 2014;Skorobogatov, 2012;Treisman, 2010), geographic (Skorobogatov, 2018;Yakovlev, 2018), and demographic characteristics (Case & Deaton, 2017;Isabel & Molina, 2007;Radaev & Roshchina, 2019;Yakovlev, 2012). 8 A similar assumption is made in Abadie et al (2010, p. 494) breaking down observational units based on the extent to which they are exposed to an intervention.…”

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“…18 For an example of its use in the field of labor economics, see Autor (2003) and for its discussion, see Angrist and Pischke (2009). 19 The maximum R-squared used for calculating the true beta and remaining bias was set to its maximum possible level of unity, which is substantially higher than levels used in other papers implementing the same method (see, for example, Oster (2019) and Skorobogatov (2018).…”

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The effect of alcohol sales restrictions on alcohol poisoning mortality: Evidence from Russia

Skorobogatov

2021

Health Economics

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This paper examines the tough anti-alcohol legislation recently introduced in Russia, which due to regional variation allows it to be used as a natural experiment. The effect of the restricted trading hours on alcoholic poisoning mortality is estimated. To establish a causal link, difference-in-differences and synthetic controls are used. The main conclusion is that the sales restrictions lead to higher alcohol poisoning mortality, which implies that more toxic alcohol surrogates serve as substitutes for commercially available alcohol.

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“…Ivanova (2018) establishes conditional sigma-and beta-convergence of real wages in spatially close cities in the period between 1996 and 2013. According to Skorobogatov (2018), consumption and productive (dis)amenities tend to equalize across Russian cities, which gives rise to income convergence between them.…”

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Regional Convergence in Russia: Estimating A Neoclassical Growth Model

2020

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This paper studies the convergence in per capita gross regional products (GRPs) across Russian regions in the period from 1996 to 2017. We estimate growth equations, which are directly derived from a neoclassical growth model, augmented with human capital and migration. To our knowledge, this is the first paper that explicitly applies a neoclassical model to analyze regional convergence in Russia. We also take into account possible spatial effects and do a series of other robustness checks. Our main estimates establish a convergence rate of around 2% per year. While we fail to find any role of human capital for regional economic growth, we find that interregional migration and the interdependencies of the growth of Russian regions contribute to the economic convergence between them.

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Why do newer cities promise higher wages in Russia?

Cited by 7 publications

References 24 publications

Continuities and discontinuities of Russian urban housing: The Soviet housing experiment in historical long-term perspective

Continuities and discontinuities of Russian urban housing: The Soviet housing experiment in historical long-term perspective

The effect of alcohol sales restrictions on alcohol poisoning mortality: Evidence from Russia

Regional Convergence in Russia: Estimating A Neoclassical Growth Model

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