Protestantism is associated with economic freedom, Islam is not, with Catholicism in between. The Protestant ethic requires economic …, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic … that Protestantism is most conducive to economic freedom. …

still pervasive. Our instrumental-variable model exploits the concentric dispersion of Protestantism around Wittenberg to … circumvent selectivity bias. Protestantism had a substantial positive effect on suicide in 1816-21 and 1869-71. We address issues … gender composition. -- religion ; suicide ; Prussian economic history …

afterlife as two mechanisms by which Protestantism increases suicide propensity. We build a unique micro-regional dataset of 452 … Protestantism around Wittenberg, our instrumental-variable model finds that Protestantism had a substantial positive effect on …

Can weakened religiosity lead to the rise of totalitarianism? The Nazi Party set itself up as a political religion …

We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is …-century Prussia we reject Weber's suggestion that Protestantism mattered due to an "ascetic compulsion to save". Moreover, we find that …

This paper uses recently discovered data on nearly 300 Prussian counties in 1816 to show that Protestantism led to more … Protestant economic history of Becker and Woessmann (2009), where Protestantism first led to better education, which in turn …. -- education ; Protestantism ; pre-industrialization …

exogenous variation in Protestantism due to a county's or town's distance to Wittenberg, the birthplace of the Reformation …. Similar results are found for the gender gap in literacy among the adult. -- Gender gap ; education ; protestantism population …