This dataset supports a study examining the path-dependence of knowledge-intensive industry location in Russia following the end of the Soviet planned economy in 1991. It analyzes the relationship between the 1991 geographic distribution of R&D personnel and the subsequent development of market-oriented knowledge-intensive business services like engineering and IT. The dataset was authored by Denis Ivanov.
Use Cases
- Analyze the correlation between 1991 R&D personnel endowments and modern IT service development across Russian regions.
- Model the persistence of Soviet-era human capital distribution on post-1991 engineering sector growth.
- Investigate regional path-dependence in knowledge-intensive business services using historical R&D manpower data.
Strengths
- Data is grounded in a natural experiment created by the end of the Soviet planned economy in 1991.
- The study examines a specific causal mechanism linking historical R&D personnel to modern industry outcomes.
Limitations
- The specific variables, column structure, and sample size are unknown.
- The dataset's temporal coverage and geographic granularity are not specified.
- Data freshness is unclear as it supports a historical analysis of a 1991 event.
Provenance
- Source
- Denis Ivanov via ICPSR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- Centered on 1991 and post-Soviet period
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Russia