Weather Effects on European Agricultural Output 1850-1913

Solomos Solomou and W. Wu

Cambridge Working Papers in Economics from Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Abstract: This paper compares the effects of weather shocks on agricultural production in Britain, France and Germany during the late nineteenth century. Using semi- parametric models to estimate the non-linear agro-weather relationship, we find that weather shocks explain between one and two-thirds of variations in agricultural production. Given the large size of the agricultural sector during this period, the high variance of agricultural production and the cyclical nature of weather shocks, the agro-weather relationship transmitted large effects on macroeconomic fluctuations over much of the period.

Keywords: Agriculture; Weather effects; Economic history; Economic fluctuations; Semi- parametric methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 C32 N54 Q10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999-07
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