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Who protests, what do they protest, and why?

Chenoweth, Erica; Hamilton, Barton Hughes; Lee, Hedwig; … - 2022

We examine individuals' decision to attend Black Lives Matter protests and demonstrations calling for less stringent public health measures to combat COVID-19 (e.g., for swifter reopening of businesses). Our analysis is facilitated by a unique staggered panel data set originally constructed to...

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Luther and the girls : religious denomination and the female education gap in 19th century Prussia

Becker, Sascha O. (contributor); … - 2008

exogenous variation in Protestantism due to a county's or town's distance to Wittenberg, the birthplace of the Reformation … ; Protestantism …

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Was Weber wrong? : A human capital theory of protestant economic history

Becker, Sascha O. (contributor); … - 2007

crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from late 19th-century Prussia reveal that Protestantism was indeed … the Reformation to use distance to Wittenberg as an instrument for Protestantism. …

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Knocking on heaven's door? : protestantism and suicide

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011

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 …

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Protestantism and education : reading (the bible) and other skills

Boppart, Timo; Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2010

During industrialization, Protestants were more literate than Catholics. This paper investigates whether this fact may be led back to the intrinsic motivation of Protestants to read the bible and whether other education motives were involved as well. We employ a historical data set from...

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A tale of minorities : evidence on religious ethics and entrepreneurship from Swiss census data

Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2014

Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to … the geographical distribution of confessions across Swiss cantons, we find that Protestantism is associated with a …

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The implications of cultural background on labour market choices : the case of religion and entrepreneurship

Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2011

religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on … cultural background has a significant effect on the individual propensity to become an entrepreneur, with Protestantism … behaviour. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; religion ; culture ; Protestantism ; Catholicism …

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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, emphasizing redemption, sacrifice, rituals, and communal spirit. This had a major impact on its success: Where the Christian Church only had shallow roots, the Nazis received...

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Vive la révolution! : Long term returns of 1968 to the angry students

Maurin, Eric (contributor); McNally, Sandra (contributor) - 2005

The famous events of May 1968, starting with student riots, threw France into a state of turmoil. The period of 'revolution' coincided with the time in which important examinations are undertaken. Normal procedures were abandoned and the pass-rate for various qualifications increased enormously....

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Societal movement restrictions and adverse mental health outcomes

Chan, Ho Fai; Cheng, Zhiming; Mendolia, Silvia; Paloyo, … - 2022

During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments have struggled to find the right balance between restrictive measures to contain the spread of the virus, and the effects of these measures on people's psychological wellbeing. This paper investigates the relationship between limitations to mobility and...

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