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Data Appendix: Housing Rent Dynamics and Rent Regulation in St. Petersburg (1880--1917)

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Sofie R. Waltl, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research & Vienna University of Economics and Business; Konstantin A. Kholodilin, DIW Berlin & NRU HSE St. Petersburg; Leonid E. Limonov, NRU HSE St. Petersburg & Leontief Centre

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Waltl, Sofie R., Kholodilin, Konstantin A., and Limonov, Leonid E. Data Appendix: Housing Rent Dynamics and Rent Regulation in St. Petersburg (1880--1917). Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-03-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/E134121V1

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This article studies housing rents in St. Petersburg (1880-1917), covering an eventful period of Russian and world history. We digitize over 5,000 rental advertisements from which 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 was no longer dominating.



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