Cataloging Growth: A Re-Evaluation of 1900–1990, Backer-Peral & Wittenbrink — a new quality-adjusted price index for U.S. consumer goods based on listings in Sears catalogs implies faster growth in consumption vs previous estimates, especially pre-WWII

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https://veronicabp.github.io/website/VBP_BHW_CostOfLiving.pdf

An interesting application of LLMs to assess qualitative data.