Eduard Bukin https://ebukin.github.io/notes.html Land and poverty economist — World Bank, JLU Giessen. quarto-1.9.37 Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Three decades of land reform in Kazakhstan https://ebukin.github.io/notes/kazakhstan-land-reform.html

Working notes on the rayon-level impact evaluation. The paper itself is still in progress; this page is where the data assembly and the interim findings live.

What the data covers

Thirty years of rayon-level administrative statistics for roughly 200 units, joined to geospatial measures of land cover, climate, and livestock production. The panel starts before decollectivization and runs through the move to individual ownership and use.

Interim findings

Placeholder. Replace with the results worth showing before publication — the descriptive series, the identification strategy, and whatever the reader should take away if they never read the paper.

Impact evaluation Rayon panel Geospatial

]]> research Kazakhstan land https://ebukin.github.io/notes/kazakhstan-land-reform.html Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Katz’s Delicatessen https://ebukin.github.io/notes/katzs-delicatessen.html Take the ticket, walk to the carver, tip him, and watch the pastrami come off the board still steaming. Hand-carved, on rye, with mustard and nothing else. The queue is part of the price and worth paying once a year.

Pastrami on rye Cash-adjacent chaos

]]> New York deli https://ebukin.github.io/notes/katzs-delicatessen.html Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brennan & Carr https://ebukin.github.io/notes/brennan-and-carr.html A roast beef sandwich dipped in its own broth, served in a dark wood room that has not changed its mind since 1938. Order it double-dipped, get the gravy on the side anyway, and do not plan anything ambitious afterwards.

Double-dipped roast beef Since 1938

]]> Brooklyn roast beef https://ebukin.github.io/notes/brennan-and-carr.html Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT