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Reformation and Reallocation : Religious and Secular Economic Activity in Early Modern Germany

Cantoni, Davide - 2017

The Protestant Reformation, beginning in 1517, was a first-order economic shock. We document its effects on the sectoral allocation of economic activity in Germany using highly disaggregated data. During the Reformation, particularly in Protestant regions, large numbers of monasteries were...

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Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide

Becker, Sascha O. - 2011

We model the effect of Protestant vs. Catholic denomination in an economic theory of suicide, accounting for differences in religious-community integration, views about man's impact on God's grace, and the possibility of confessing sins. We test the theory using a unique micro-regional dataset...

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Not the Opium of the People : Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties

Becker, Sascha O. - 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 …

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Earthquakes, Religion, and Transition to Self-Government in Italian Cities

Belloc, Marianna - 2016

This paper presents a unique historical experiment to explore the dynamics of institutional change in the Middle Ages. We have assembled a novel dataset, where information on political institutions for northern-central Italian cities between 1000 and 1300 is matched with detailed information on...

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The Effect of Income on Religiousness

Buser, Thomas - 2014

How does income affect religiousness? Using self-collected survey data, we estimate the effects of income on religious behaviour. As a source of exogenous income variation we use a change in the eligibility criteria for a government cash transfer in Ecuador and apply a regression discontinuity...

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Happiness and Religion

Fidrmuc, Jan - 2015

We use four ways of the European Social Survey, covering 2000 to 2008, to analyze the effect of religion on happiness … the effects of belonging to an organized religion from the effect of holding religious beliefs, we find that the former … lowers happiness while the latter raises it. We interpret this as evidence that the tangible aspects of religion (such as …

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Ancestry, Language and Culture

Spolaore, Enrico - 2015

We explore the interrelationships between various measures of cultural distance. We first discuss measures of genetic distance, used in the recent economics literature to capture the degree of relatedness between countries. We next describe several classes of measures of lin-guistic, religious,...

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Social Cohesion, Religious Beliefs, and the Effect of Protestantism on Suicide

Becker, Sascha O. - 2015

In an economic theory of suicide, we model social cohesion of the religious community and religious beliefs about afterlife as two mechanisms by which Protestantism increases suicide propensity. We build a unique micro-regional dataset of 452 Prussian counties in 1816-21 and 1869-71, when...

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Voodoo versus Fishing Committees : The Role of Traditional and Contemporary Institutions in Fisheries Management

Briones Alonso, Elena - 2015

institution embedded in the Voodoo religion and a recent secular institution in the form of fishing committees. Using household …

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Economic Freedom and Religion : An Empirical Investigation

Hillman, Arye L. - 2016

, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic …

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