Tomila V. Lankina
Religious Influences on Human Capital Variations in Imperial Russia
historical legacies particularly imperial tutelage religion featured prominently recent scholarship political regime variations postcommunist settings challenging earlier temporally proximate explanations overlap tutelage geography religion complicated uncovering spatially uneven effects various legacies author addresses challenge conducting subnational analysis religious influences within one imperial domain russia particular paper traces european settlement imperial russia bearing human development imperial periphery causal mechanism paper proposes account influence western communities impact literacy turn linked analysis western christian particularly protestant roots settler populations author makes case constructing original dataset based subnational data hitherto underutilised first imperial census 1897