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Nine protestants are to be esteemed worth ten catholics. Representing religion, labour and economic performance in pre-Industrial Europe, c.1650 - c.1800.
Lambrecht, Thijs A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
Religion was one of the factors that was frequently identified by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century economists as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325674
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The Economic Effects of the Protestant Reformation: Testing the Weber Hypothesis in the German Lands
Cantoni, Davide - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Following Max Weber, many theories have hypothesized that Protestantism should have favored economic development. With its religious heterogeneity, the Holy Roman Empire presents an ideal testing ground for this hypothesis. Using population figures of 272 cities in the years 1300–1900, I find...
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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
Becker, Sascha O.; Wößmann, Ludger - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005187305
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Printing and Protestants: reforming the economics of the Reformation
Rubin, Jared - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The causes of the Protestant Reformation have long been debated. This paper attempts to revive and econometrically test the theory that the spread of the Reformation is linked to the spread of the printing press. The proposed causal pathway is that the printing press permitted the ideas of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009148026
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From the Persecuting to the Protective State? Jewish Expulsions and Weather Shocks from 1100 to 1800
Anderson, R. Warren; Johnson, Noel D; Koyama, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
What factors caused the persecution of minorities in medieval and early modern Europe? We build a model that predicts that minority communities were more likely to be expropriated in the wake of negative income shocks. We then use panel data consisting of 785 city-level expulsions of Jews from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112726
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Hofstede, Schwartz, Inglehart and beyond. New directions in empirical global value research
Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
shift at an enormous speed; and above all, religion and family values can be an important assett in the stability of … research uses data from the World Values Survey project to study the relationship between religion, denominations and economic … original 30 variables and the newly derived factor analytical dimensions: a) economic permissiveness b) traditional religion c …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274385
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Hofstede, Inglehart and beyond. New directions in empirical global value research
Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
shift at an enormous speed; and above all, religion and family values can be an important assett in the stability of … research uses data from the World Values Survey project to study the relationship between religion, denominations and economic … original 30 variables and the newly derived factor analytical dimensions: a) economic permissiveness b) traditional religion c …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275133
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Is fatalism a cultural belief? An empirical analysis on the origin of fatalistic tendencies
Ruiu, Gabriele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
religion on fatalistic beliefs seem to be an important element determining fatalistic tendencies. However there are not large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258730
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African Development,Partnership and Rationality Challenge:An Exposition
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259767
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Are women in the MENA region really that different from women in Europe? Globalization, conservative values and female labor market participation.
Fischer, Justina AV; Aydıner-Avşar, Nursel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This article aims to compare women in the MENA region with women in Europe as to how globalization affects their conservative values and attitudes, and, thereby, their labor market participation. The authors define conservative values as both religious values and socio-political attitudes...
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