Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to … answer this question by comparing Protestant and Catholic minorities using Swiss census data from 1970 to 2000. Exploiting …

religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on … increasing the chances to be an entrepreneur by around 3% with respect to Catholicism. Our findings, stable across a number of …