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Not the Opium of the People : Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties
Becker, Sascha O. - 2013
income and Protestant church attendance for six waves of up to 175 Prussian counties spanning 1886-1911. The data reveal a … marked decline in church attendance coinciding with increasing income. The cross-section also shows a negative association … between income and church attendance. But the association disappears in panel analyses, including first-differenced models of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086410
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Why are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions?
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2012
Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000-2006 and merge this information with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100274
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Education Promoted Secularization
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education – but not income or urbanization – is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315625
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The Effect of Investment in Children's Education on Fertility in 1816 Prussia
Becker, Sascha O. - 2010
The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135779
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The Effect of Child Care on Family Structure : Theory and Evidence
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2012
children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108093