Timur Natkhov

Timur Natkhov is Professor of Applied Economics and Head of the Laboratory for Institutional Analysis at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. His work focuses on the economic history of Russia. He is particularly interested in the Imperial period studying the role of market and public institutions in the diffusion of technologies and accumulation of human capital, as well as in the determinants of institutional divergence between Eastern and Western Europe in the early modern period. His paper on the diffusion of agricultural technologies won the 2022 Larry Neal prize for the best paper in Explorations in Economic History. His most recent paper that explores the origins of Russian serfdom using earliest population censuses and military lists, is forthcoming in the Review of Economic Studies. He is currently exploring the economic and demographic behavior of the Russian peasantry using newly digitized microdata on peasant households in the late 19-th century.