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Do entrepreneurs matter?
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291523
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830986
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352373
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Religion in Economic History: A Survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269435
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283920
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264122
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271786