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Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - 2013

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...

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Religion in Economic History : A Survey

Becker, Sascha O. - 2020

This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … Catholic Church in European economic history since the medieval period. Taking advantage of newly digitized data and advanced … leading role in the interconnection between religion and economic history. Third, many socioeconomic factors matter in the …

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Education Promoted Secularization

Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - 2014

Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...

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Geography and insolation in 19th century US African-American and white statures

Carson, Scott Alan - 2008

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature. Moreover, while much is known about 19th century black legal and material conditions, less is known about how 19th century institutional arrangements were related to black stature....

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Geography, insolation, and institutional change in 19th century African-American and white stature in southern states

Carson, Scott Alan - 2008

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature. While much is known about 19th century black legal and material conditions, less is known about how 19th century biological conditions were related to the physical environment and...

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Racial differences in body-mass indices for men imprisoned in 19th century US prisons: A multinomial approach

Carson, Scott Alan - 2010

Little research has been done on the body mass index values of 19th century US African-Americans and whites. This paper uses 19th century US prison records to demonstrate that although modern BMIs have increased in the 20th century, 19th century black and white BMIs were distributed...

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Religion in Economic History: A Survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

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iPEHD: The ifo Prussian Economic History Database

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik; … - 2012

This paper provides a documentation of the ifo Prussian Economic History Database (iPEHD), a county-level database … unique source for micro-regional empirical research in economic history, enabling analyses of the importance of such factors …

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Was Weber wrong?: a human capital theory of protestant economic history

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 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...

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Catch me iIf you can : education and catch-up in the industrial revolution

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously...

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