Population decline in Russia: large-scale individual data and microhistory.

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19H01478
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 07040:Economic policy-related
• Research Institution: Hitotsubashi University
• Principal Investigator: KUMO Kazuhiro 一橋大学, 経済研究所, 教授 (70314896)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 道上 真有 新潟大学, 人文社会科学系, 准教授 (30527693) ; 武田 友加 九州大学, 基幹教育院, 准教授 (70376573) ; 五十嵐 徳子 天理大学, 国際学部, 教授 (80294156)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: Russia / Demography / Fertility / Mortality / Migration / Microdata / Microhistory

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The study was based on the analysis of data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) and the interstate population movement matrices from the internal data of the Federal Statistical Service of Russia, as well as microhistories of the demographic determinants in Russia. By adopting and integrating approaches from four fields - gender theory, labour economics, asset analysis and mathematical demography - we attempted to gain a comprehensive understanding of the determinants of births, deaths and migration in Russia.
The effects of income, robustness of gender norms, housing conditions and the burden of caring for the elderly on fertility, mortality and inter-regional migration were extracted.

Free Research Field

Demography, Area Studies, Russian Economy

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究はロシアにおける出生の規程要因を，これまで個別に進められてきた各分野での研究の体系化により総合的な理解を可能とすることを推し進めた．社会的分業という点でロシアは疑いなく，日本に先行した経験を有している．だが家庭内分業という側面では依然として日本とロシアとは対比可能な水準にあるものと推測される．従って我が国はロシアの経験から，社会的分業を急速に進める事で生じる問題点，そして社会分業を実現したものの強い家族内規範が残ることによる帰結，を検討する事が可能であろう．