Postal Data Analysis and Us Economic History in the 19th Century: Measuring Business Cycles and Social Mobility

by Robert Dimand

Previously unexploited postal data provides a good proxy for economic activity in the nineteenth-century United States, disaggregated down the area served by each post office for each two-year period. Compensation paid to every employee of the United States Government, including postmasters, was published for each two-year period from 1816 in the Official Register, of which only a few complete sets survive. Postmasters were compensated according to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1839990732
• ISBN13: 9781839990731
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Length: 100 Pages