Dimand, Robert W.; Hines, Terrence; Gong, Olivia; … - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 12 (2020) 1, pp. 1-57
For the past several years, we have presented and published studies based on postal related data, from postmaster cash books and the Official Register, where we use postmaster salary data as a measure of local, highly disaggregate proxies for general economic activity at town and village level....