Turner, Matthew A.; Rosenthal, Jeffrey S.; Chen, Jian; … - In: American Economic Review 102 (2012) 3, pp. 250-55
We investigate the effect of climate change on population growth in 18th and 19th century Iceland. We find that annual temperature changes help determine the population growth rate in pre-industrial Iceland: a year 1 degree Celsius cooler than average drives down population growth rates by...