First Cabin Fares from New York to the British Isles, 1826–1914

Brandon Dupont (), Drew Keeling and Thomas Weiss

A chapter in Research in Economic History, 2017, vol. 33, pp 19-63 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: We present a continuous time series on first cabin passenger fares for ocean travel from New York to the British Isles covering nearly a century of time. We discuss the conceptual and empirical difficulties of constructing such a time series, and examine the reasons for differences between the behavior of advertised fares and those based on passenger revenues. We find that while there are conceptual differences between these two measurements, as well as differences in the average values, the two generally moved in parallel, which means that the advertised fare series can serve as a reasonable proxy for movement of the revenue-based fares. We also find that advertised fares declined over time, roughly paralleling the drop in freight rates for US bulk exports, until around 1890, but thereafter increased while freight rates continued to decline. We propose several hypotheses for this divergent behavior and suggest lines of future research.

Keywords: Overseas travel; transportation; tourism; migration; ocean fares; N0; N7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.110 ... d&utm_campaign=repec (text/html)
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.110 ... 3-326820170000033002
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.110 ... d&utm_campaign=repec (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: First Cabin Fares from New York to the British Isles, 1826-1914 (2016)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eme:rehizz:s0363-326820170000033002

DOI: 10.1108/S0363-326820170000033002

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Research in Economic History from Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Emerald Support ().