These files contain all the data used in the publication "Poverty or Prosperity in Northern India? New Evidence on Real Wages, 1590s-1870s". Introduces a new dataset on wages in northern India (from Gujarat in the West to Bengal in the East) from the 1590s to the 1870s. It follows Allen’s subsistence basket methodology to compute internationally comparable real wages to shed light on developments in Indian living standards over time, as well as to test some of the assumptions underlying the comparative real wage methodology. It adjusts the comparative cost of living indices to take into account differences in caloric intake due to variances in heights. Furthermore, the paper discusses the male/female wage gap in northern India.
The following publications are supplemented by the data in this project.
Zwart, Pim, and Jan Lucassen. “Poverty or Prosperity in Northern India? New Evidence on Real Wages, 1590s–1870s.” Economic History Review 73, no. 3 (August 2020): 644–67. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12996.
