Russia needs bodies to fight in its ongoing war against Ukraine, and the bonuses the government offers to entice new recruits are changing economic levels in some of the poorest regions of the country, particularly when these soldiers are killed in action.

“Going to the front and being killed a year later is economically more profitable than a man’s further life,” according to Russian economist Vladislav Inozemtsev, who coined the term “deathonomics” to describe what’s been happening, reported The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.

Inozemtsev explains that the family of a 35-year-old man who goes off to fight for about a year before being killed would get around 14.5 million rubles, a fortune in many parts of Russia. This total comes to about $150,000 U.S. dollars, representing the soldier’s salary and death benefit bonus.

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