Publication: Weather shocks, poverty and crime in 18th-century Savoy
Weather shocks, poverty and crime in 18th-century Savoy
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Chambru, C. (2020). Weather shocks, poverty and crime in 18th-century Savoy. Explorations in Economic History, 78, 101353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2020.101353
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Did weather shocks increase interpersonal conflict in early modern Europe? I address this question by exploiting year-to-year seasonal variations in temperature and detailed crime data assembled from Savoyard criminal procedures over the period 1749–92. I find that temperature shocks had a positive and significant effect on the level of property crimes, but a negative and significant effect on violent crimes. I further document how seasonal migration helped to increase the coping capacity of local communities. Indeed, migrant labour b
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Chambru, C. (2020). Weather shocks, poverty and crime in 18th-century Savoy. Explorations in Economic History, 78, 101353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2020.101353
