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Religious Competition and Reallocation : The Political Economy of Secularization in the Protestant Reformation

Cantoni, Davide - 2017

Using novel microdata, we document an unintended, first-order consequence of the Protestant Reformation: a massive reallocation of resources from religious to secular purposes. To understand this process, we propose a conceptual framework in which the introduction of religious competition shifts...

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Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution

Cantoni, Davide - 2012

We present new data documenting medieval Europe's "Commercial Revolution'' using information on the establishment of markets in Germany. We use these data to test whether medieval universities played a causal role in expanding economic activity, examining the foundation of Germany's first...

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Historical Natural Experiments : Bridging Economics and Economic History

Cantoni, Davide - 2020

The analysis of historical natural experiments has profoundly impacted economics research across fields. We trace the …

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Undergraduate Econometrics Instruction : Through Our Classes, Darkly

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2017

The past half-century has seen economic research become increasingly empirical, while the nature of empirical economic research has also changed. In the 1960s and 1970s, an empirical economist's typical mission was to "explain" economic variables like wages or GDP growth. Applied econometrics...

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What Did UWE Do for Economics?

Avilova, Tatyana; Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Economics is among the most popular undergraduate majors. However, even at the best research universities and liberal … arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one, and overall there are about 2.5 males to every female economics major. The … Undergraduate Women in Economics (UWE) Challenge was begun in 2015 for one year as a randomized controlled trial with 20 treatment …

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