On historical household budgets

Working paper

The paper argues that household budgets are the best starting point for investigating a number of big questions related to the evolution of the living standards during the last two-three centuries. If one knows where to look, historical family budgets are more abundant than might be suspected. And statistical techniques have been developed to handle the associated problems of small, incomplete, and unrepresentative samples. We introduce the Historical Household Budgets (HHB) Project, aimed at...

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Authors: A'Hearn, B; Amendola, N; Vecchi, G

• Publication status: Published
• Publisher: University of Oxford Publisher's website
• Series: Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers
• Publication date: 2016-06-16
• Paper number: 144
• Keywords: inequality; living standards; household budget surveys; purchasing power parities; globalization; grouped data; household budgets; poverty; survey; poststratification