Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/175181 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
QUCEH Working Paper Series No. 2018-01
Publisher: 
Queen's University Centre for Economic History (QUCEH), Belfast
Abstract: 
A new sample containing rental price and characteristic data for over 15,000 New York City units was collected from historical newspapers for the period 1880 to 1910. These units were geolocated to the historical map of Manhattan Island to explore their geographic coverage, using Geographic Information System (GIS) software. This paper presents the new sample and discusses its representativeness of the New York City housing market during the sample period, with reference to the (limited) previous measures available in the literature and an analysis of the summary statistics of various subsamples of the data which can highlight selection biases. Finally, an analysis of the social status and ethnic composition of individuals located in the sample units in Census year 1880 is presented. Understanding the biases that might be present in this new sample will inform its usefulness in uncovering the workings of historical housing markets and in contributing to the scarce available information on historical housing costs.
Subjects: 
real estate markets
historical house rental price data
selection bias
US economic history
New York City
historical GIS
JEL: 
J15
R31
N91
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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