A quantitative reinterpreter of Russian economic history
His 2021 study showed that regional differences in famine mortality were more closely associated with ethnic bias than with food productivity.
Andrei Markevich is an economic historian who reconstructs Russian economic history through quantitative evidence and institutional analysis. His work examines the state, markets, industrialization, and planning in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union over long time spans, and he has taught and conducted research at the New Economic School in Moscow. A 2021 study with Natalya Naumenko and Nancy Qian found that the high mortality of Ukrainians during the 1932–33 famine cannot be explained by food production alone, linking it to ethnically biased procurement policy and migration restrictions. The study uses large regional datasets to connect the famine’s economic mechanisms with the responsibility of state policy.
Career Timeline
- 1994–1999Student, History Faculty, Moscow State University
- 2002Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences
- 2005–2007Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Economics, University of Warwick
- 2011National Prize in Applied Economics
- 2012–Professor and Head of Institutional Economics, New Economic School
- 2021–Associate Editor, Economic Journal