Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … -Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up to WWII. Works on Judaism address Jewish occupational specialization …, human capital, emancipation, and the causes and consequences of Jewish persecution. One set of papers on Christianity …