Cross-sectional evidence on price levels is scarce for all countries. However, several studies
suggest that there might exist considerable differences in price levels within countries, which …

For most of Canadian economic history, French-Canadians (who composed more than a
quarter of the country's population) had living standards inferior to those of English …

The kinds of goods that richer and poorer households consumed differed more strongly in
the past than today. Movements in the relative prices of luxury goods versus staples caused …

We construct a new consumer price index for Canada covering the period from 1870 to
1900. Unlike previous indexes, it includes prices of clothing and household furnishings. This …

Exploring the roots of Canadian consumer culture, this book uncovers the meanings that
Canadians have historically attached to consumer goods. Focusing on white women during …

To what extent are the outcomes of economic regulation intended and desired by its
proponents? To address that question, we combine Stigler's theory of regulatory capture …

Generally, Canada has been ignored in the literature on the colonial origins of divergence
with most of the attention going to the United States. Late nineteenth century estimates of …

This paper explores regional price variation in early twentieth-century Spain. Using
consumer price information from the bulletins published by the Instituto de Reformas …

In this paper, we study the impact of Canada's adoption of protectionist trade policy in 1879
on Canadian welfare. Under the National Policy, the Canadian average weighted tariff …

Many immigrant‐receiving and land‐abundant countries experienced a diminishing ratio of
wages to land prices during the globalisation era from 1870 to 1910. Factor price evidence …