Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/266343 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] Explorations in Economic History [ISSN:] 0014-4983 [Volume:] 81 [Article No.:] 101398 [Publisher:] Elsevier [Place:] Amsterdam [Year:] 2021
Publisher: 
Elsevier, Amsterdam
Abstract: 
This article studies housing rents in St. Petersburg from 1880 to 1917, covering an eventful period of Russian and world history. Digitizing over 5000 rental advertisements, we construct a state-of-the-art index – the first pre-war and pre-Soviet market data index for any Russian city. In 1915, a rent control and tenant protection policy was introduced in response to soaring prices following the outbreak of WWI. We document official compliance, rising tenure duration, and strongly increased affordability for workers. While the immediate prelude to the October Revolution was indeed characterized by economic turmoil, rent affordability did not dominate.
Subjects: 
Rental market
Rent regulation
Intra-urban rent dynamics
Hedonic rent price index
Economic history
Pre-Soviet Russia
October Revolution
JEL: 
C14
C43
N93
O18
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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