Nineteenth-Century Bangkok Orchard Land Deeds for Productivity Analysis

This dataset supports a replication study on the impact of canal network access on agricultural productivity in 19th-century Bangkok. It is constructed from archival orchard land deeds from the 1880s. The analysis finds that properties adjacent to canals had higher labor productivity.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between canal adjacency and labor productivity using 1880s orchard land deeds.
• Assess market access impacts on cultivator welfare through historical transport infrastructure data.
• Apply the Oster (2019) method to evaluate selection bias in the context of canal access and orchard productivity.

Strengths

• Data is derived from primary historical sources: 1880s orchard land deeds.
• The study applies a specific causal inference method (Oster, 2019) to address selection bias.
• Focuses on a specific historical period and geography (19th-century Bangkok).

Limitations

• The dataset is historical and may not reflect modern agricultural or economic conditions.
• Specific data dimensions like row count, column count, and file formats are unknown.
• Potential limitations in data completeness or coverage inherent to 19th-century archival records.

Provenance

Source

ICPSR Harvested Dataverse, authored by Thanyaporn Chankrajang.

Collection Method

Constructed from archival 1880s orchard land deeds for a specific academic study.

Time Range

1880s.

Freshness

Metadata last updated on 2026-02-23.

Geography

Bangkok, Thailand.