United States
Original Sources This electronic data archive was developed by Mario J. Crucini, Chris I. Telmer and Robert A. Margo. The original source document for this data is: Wholesale Commodity Prices in the United States, 1700-1861, Statistical Supplement, Actual Wholesale Prices of Various Commodities, by Arthur H. Cole, 1938, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. Acknowledgements We are grateful to the following excellent research assistants who have toiled on this archive: PJ Glandon, Chih-Wei (Danny) Wang, and Hakan Yilmazkuday. Mario Crucini, Mototsugu Shintani, Christopher Telmer, and Hakan Yilmazkuday gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the National Science Foundation (SES- 1030164, and SES-0524868). Description The price data consist of monthly price observations of 46 commodities, such as wheat, coal and cod. Many of these goods are specified down to the exact variety, such as No. 3 Red Wheat, thus the number of varieties is actually 549. The sample period of observation begins in January 1700 and ends in December 1861. The cities included in the panel are Boston, Charleston, Cinncinati, New York, Boston, New Orleans, and Philadelphia. Figure 1 shows the coverage of goods (out of 46) for each city over the monthly period of 1700-1861. Cole Graph
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Cities in current dataset:
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