Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890–2006,” by Lyons (@ronanlyons), Shertzer (@econhist-allday), Gray (@econhistoryorbust), and Agorastos: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Abstract. We construct the first annual market rent and home sales price series for American cities over the 20th century using 2.7 million newspaper real