Crone, Theodore M.; Nakamura, Leonard I.; Voith, Richard - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 92 (2010) 3, pp. 628-642
Until the end of 1977, the U.S. consumer price index (CPI) for rents tended to omit rent increases when units had a change of tenants or were vacant, biasing inflation estimates downward. Beginning in 1978, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) implemented a series of methodological changes that...
