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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 … causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms … facilitated a close historical interconnection of religion with political power and conflict. Second, human capital often played a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269435
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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 … causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms … facilitated a close historical interconnection of religion with political power and conflict. Second, human capital often played a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830986
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Elite Persistence and Policy Persistence: Re-Installed Mayors from Weimar Germany
Nitschke, Remo; Roesel, Felix - 2023
Why do public policies change little over time in individual places, sometimes for centuries? We investigate different mechanisms for policy persistence. Several city mayors serving in democratic Weimar Germany were expelled by the Nazis in 1933, but re-installed by the Allies after World War...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290161
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Urbanization and the Change in Political Elites
Franck, Raphaël; Gay, Victor - 2024
This study argues that urbanization changed the relationship between the occupation of candidates running in parliamentary elections and their electoral success. To identify local-level variation in urbanization, we leverage exogenous changes to the boundaries of electoral constituencies in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469312
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Elite Persistence and Policy Persistence : Re-Installed Mayors from Weimar Germany
Nitschke, Remo; Roesel, Felix - 2023
Why do public policies change little over time in individual places, sometimes for centuries? We investigate different mechanisms for policy persistence. Several city mayors serving in democratic Weimar Germany were expelled by the Nazis in 1933, but re-installed by the Allies after World War...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261691
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Are the Supporters of Socialism the Losers of Capitalism? Conformism in East Germany and Transition Success
Deter, Max; Lange, Martin - 2021
The empirical literature is inconclusive about whether a country's democratization goes hand in hand with a reallocation of economic resources. With newly available individual-level data of former residents of the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR), we analyse how supporters and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177526
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The Long-Term Costs of Government Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2016
Despite the prevalence of government surveillance systems around the world, causal evidence on their social and economic consequences is lacking. Using county-level variation in the number of Stasi informers within Socialist East Germany during the 1980s and accounting for potential endogeneity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522542
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The invisible hand plays dice : eventualities in religious markets
Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2004
Religious participation is much more widespread in the United States than in Europe, while Europeans tend to view sects more suspiciously than Americans. We propose an explanation for these patterns without assuming differences in preferences or market fundamentals. Religious markets may have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261227
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From the Death of God to the Rise of Hitler
Becker, Sascha O.; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2023
Can weakened religiosity lead to the rise of totalitarianism? The Nazi Party set itself up as a political religion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469562
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Not the opium of the people: Income and secularization in a panel of Prussian counties
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2013
The interplay between religion and the economy has occupied social scientists for long. We construct a unique panel of … doubt on causal interpretations of the religion-economy nexus in Prussian secularization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291671