This page is dedicated to a long-term project of mine which is to gradually recreate Canadian national accounts (GDP, balance of payment, money stock etc.) prior to circa 1913 with serious attention on the pre-1870 era. There will also be data regarding topics in macroeconomic history. The data will be attached gradually as each paper gets accepted. However, I will post the working papers without the underlying data before they are published. All unpublished data can be requested via email.
- Canadian Price Index, 1688 to 1850
- Published in 2019 in the Canadian Journal of Economics as “A Price Index for Canada, 1688 to 1850”.
- Dataset (as will be posted with the data supplement to the article), alternative interpolation methods and “read me” files.
- Real Wages in Quebec, 1688 to 1775
- Published in 2019 in Cliometrica as “Distinct within North America: Living Standards in French Canada, 1688 to 1775“.
- Dataset in appendix of the article.
- Mortality Rates, Birth Rates and Nuptiality in Quebec, 1688 to 1858
- Published in 2015 in the Journal of Population Research (with Vadim Kufenko) as “Malthusian pressures: empirical evidence from a frontier economy“
- Dataset and “read me” files.
- Heights of Canadian Convicts Born Between 1760 and 1830
- Published in 2017 in Economics and Human Biology (with Vadim Kufenko and Alex Arsenault Morin) as “The heights of French-Canadian convicts, 1780s–1820s“
- Dataset (in excel), on demand for .dta (wordpress refuses to upload my data on my server in this form).
- Farming Productivity in Lower Canada, 1831
- Published in 2017 in Historical Methods (with Vadim Kufenko and Michael Hinton) as “The equally “bad” French and English farmers of Quebec: New TFP measures from the 1831 census“
- Dataset (in excel) all methodological details in the appendix of the article
- Canadian Price Index corrected for missing clothing component, 1870-1900
- GDP of Canada from 1688 to 1790
- Currently in revisions to improve writing. Titled “Economic Growth in Quebec during the Colonial Era and International Comparisons” (working paper version here).
- Dataset will be published upon article’s acceptance.
- Shipping Productivity of Sail Ships from the Port of Quebec, 1764 to 1861
- Working paper still in progress (co-authored with Jari Eloranta and Vadim Kufenko) under the title of “Crowding-Out at Sea: Shipping Productivity and the Burden of the British Navy, 1760 to 1860” (working paper version here).
- Dataset will be published upon article’s acceptance.
- Cost of Living of Rich and Poor in Canada, 1688 to 1913
- Submitted to Cliometrica as “Relative Costs of Living, for Richer and Poorer, 1688-1914” (co-authored with Peter Lindert). Includes a wage series for unskilled workers that spans from 1688 to 1913 (working paper version here).
- Dataset will be published upon article’s acceptance.
- Cross-section of regional wages in Canada East and West, 1842
- Revise and resubmit decision at Social Science Quarterly as “Was (English) Canada Poorer than the United States? Living Standards Circa 1830 to Circa 1845” (co-authored with Gonzalo Macera). Includes a wage series for unskilled workers that spans from 1688 to 1913 (working paper version here).
- Dataset will be published upon article’s acceptance.
Vincent Geloso 