Brunt, Liam - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2015
We estimate a time series model of weather shocks on English wheat yields for the early nineteenth century and use it to predict weather effects on yield levels from 1697 to 1871. This reveals that yields in the 1690s were depressed by unusually poor weather; and those in the late 1850s were...