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Weber revisited : the protestant ethic and the spirit of nationalism

Kersting, Felix; Wohnsiedler, Iris; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2019

We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is crucial to both, the interpretation of Weber's Protestant Ethic and empirical tests thereof. For late 19th century Prussia we reject Weber's suggestion that Protestantism mattered...

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Religion and growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

—together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that … religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual preferences …, societal norms, and institutions. Religion affects physical capital accumulation by influencing thrift and financial …

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A political theory of Russian orthodoxy : evidence from public goods experiments

Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2013

In this paper, I test the effects of religious norms on the provision of public goods. My evidence is drawn from public goods experiments that I ran with regional bureaucrats in Tomsk and Novosibirsk, Russia. I introduce three treatments, which I define as degrees of Eastern Orthodox...

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Can schools change religious attitudes? : evidence from German state reforms of compulsory religious education

Arold, Benjamin W.; Woessmann, Ludger; Zierow, Larissa - 2022

We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students’ religiosity as adults. We exploit the staggered termination of compulsory religious education across German states in models with state and cohort fixed effects. Using three different datasets, we find that abolishing...

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Aging, proximity to death, and religiousness

Lechler, Marie; Sunde, Uwe - 2020

importance of religion in individuals' lives. We combine individual survey response data for more than 311,000 individuals from …

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Ethnic diversity, public goods provision and social cohesion : lessons from an inconclusive literature

Schaeffer, Merlin - 2013

Over the last two decades there has been a growing debate on the supposedly negative relation between ethnic diversity, public goods production and social cohesion. Despite the amount of evidence, existing in-depth qualitative reviews conclude that the literature is inconclusive. Advancing upon...

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Class, Social Mobility, and Voting: Evidence from Historical Voting Records

Dewan, Torun; Kam, Christopher; Meriläinen, Jaakko; … - 2021

We explore the connection between social class, social mobility, and voting behavior in nineteenth-century England. To avoid pitfalls associated with survey or aggregate data on voting behavior, we use administrative longitudinal records preceding secret ballot on voters’ choices and...

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Coal and blood : industrialization and the rise of nationalism in Prussia before 1914

Kersting, Felix - 2017

Industrialization and the rise of nationalism were the two major developments in Germany before the World War I. A novel county-level dataset reveals that industrialization and nationalism measured by membership in the "Kriegervereine'", the biggest civil organization at the time, were...

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Elite structure and the provision of health-promoting public goods

Krieger, Tommy - 2020

We compile biographical information on more than 5,000 Prussian politicians and exploit newly digitized administrative data to examine whether landowning and landless elites differ in the extent to which they support health infrastructure projects. Using exogenous variation in soil texture, we...

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Religious identity, public goods and centralization : evidence from Russian and Israeli Cities

Grigoriadis, Theocharis; Torgler, Benno - 2013

In this paper, we analyze the effects of religious identity - defined both as personal identification with a religious tradition and institutional ideas on the provision of public goods - on attitudes toward central government. We explore whether citizens belonging to collectivist rather than...

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