How Extractive Was Russian Serfdom? Income Inequality in Moscow Province in the Early Nineteenth Century

<p class="editor-paragraph" dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">This replication package contains the complete dataset used in "How Extractive Was Russian Serfdom? Income Inequality in Moscow Province in the Early Nineteenth Century" (Korchmina and Malinowski, 2026).</span></p><p class="editor-paragraph" dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The package includes: (1) individual-level income records for 7,399 asset-holding households in Moscow Province in 1811, including all registered aristocrats and merchants; (2) estimated incomes for 21 additional social groups derived from government and private business financial records; (3) the constructed social table with pre- and post-tax income measures; (4) calculated inequality measures (Gini coefficients, Extraction Ratio, top income shares) for 1811 and 1904; (5) two maps showing geographic distribution of income and social groups; and (6) detailed documentation of data sources, variable definitions, and calculation methods.</span></p><p class="editor-paragraph" dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">All data are provided in Excel format with accompanying Word documents containing methodological notes, and data source descriptions.</span></p>