some parts of the world began a transition to agriculture. Recent data strongly implicate climate change as the driving … endogenously to climate. After a period of favorable environmental conditions during which regional population grew, an abrupt … climate reversal forced people to take refuge at a few favored sites. The resulting spike in local population density reduced …

. Geography determined where Europeans originally settled: in Northeastern USA, along those segments of the Atlantic coast where … the climate was neither too hot (the US South), nor too cold (Canada). Higher population densities in this early settled … density in 1900; and some where different sets of geography variables (e.g. temperature) are used as instruments. Our findings …

In recent years, empirical investigations have shown that various aspects of physical geography are closely related to … understanding for this type of regularities, this article reviews the growing empirical literature on geography and institutions, as … well as a large body of older and newer theoretical works on the social impacts of geography. It is argued that the most …

Past studies of the relationships between economic activity and geography have been hampered by limited spatial data on …

In recent years, empirical investigations have shown that various aspects of physical geography are closely related to … understanding for this type of regularities, this article reviews the growing empirical literature on geography and institutions, as … well as a large body of older and newer theoretical works on the social impacts of geography. It is argued that the most …

changing variables (climate, geography, laws, etc.) on the U.S. state traffic fatality rate using alternative econometric …-evaluate the role of climate in road safety. …