exogenous variation in Protestantism due to a county’s or town’s distance to Wittenberg, the birthplace of the Reformation …

This paper uses recently discovered data on nearly 300 Prussian counties in 1816 to show that Protestantism led to more … Protestant economic history of Becker and Woessmann (2009), where Protestantism first led to better education, which in turn …

crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from late 19thcentury Prussia reveal that Protestantism was indeed … the Reformation to use distance to Wittenberg as an instrument for Protestantism. …

The interplay between religion and the economy has occupied social scientists for long. We construct a unique panel of … doubt on causal interpretations of the religion-economy nexus in Prussian secularization. …

afterlife as two mechanisms by which Protestantism increases suicide propensity. We build a unique micro-regional dataset of 452 … Protestantism around Wittenberg, our instrumental-variable model finds that Protestantism had a substantial positive effect on …

institution embedded in the Voodoo religion and a recent secular institution in the form of fishing committees. Using household …

’s recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a …

I investigate empirically the role of religion and political institutions in policies against human trafficking, using … influence of religion on the overall 3P Anti-trafficking Policy Index is driven by protection and prevention policies. As … empirical findings regarding the association between religion, political institutions, and human development. …