Datasets and replication codes for "Middleman Minorities and Ethnic Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the Russian Empire." Review of Economic Studies, 2020, Vol. 87(1), 289-342. DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdz001"

Datasets and replication codes for:

• Grosfeld, Irena,  Seyhun Orcan Sakalli, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya. 2020. "Middleman Minorities and Ethnic Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the Russian Empire. " Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 87(1), 289-342.
  • DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdz001(RESTUD Open Access)

The included geocoded datasets that cover the Russian Empire, they include data on:

- Pogroms

- Ethnicity, occupational composition across ethnicities, and other population statistics

- Grain yields, grain prices, and crop failures

- Seasonal temperature

- Political turmoil

- Violence against Jews before 1800

- Antisemitic books in the 18th century