Economic Insights — A principal investigator behind the Historical Housing Prices Project, the subject of this issue’s Data in Focus, talks about what it’s like to be an economic historian and who thrives in this kind of work.
Her title is “Economic Advisor and Economist,” but Allison Shertzer is also a trained economic historian. That means she does the painstaking work of digitizing the maps and assembling the historic data sets that inform much contemporary economics. The Historical Housing Prices Project, the Philadelphia Fed’s newest data product, wouldn’t exist without the work of economic historians like Allison. Learn more about this product and what it’s like to be an economic historian in this issue’s Q&A.
This article appeared in the Third Quarter 2024 issue of Economic Insights. Download and read the full issue.
