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"Every catholic child in a catholic school" : historical resistance to state schooling, contemporary private competition, and student achievement across countries

West, Martin R. (contributor); Woessmann, Ludger (contributor) - 2008

Nineteenth-Century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed state schooling. We show that countries with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 (but without a Catholic state religion) tend to have larger shares of privately operated schools even today. We use this historical pattern as a natural...

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The enfranchisement of women and the welfare state

Bertocchi, Graziella (contributor) - 2007

with the presence of Catholicism, which is associated with a more traditional view of women's role and thus a lower cost … affected positively by per capita income and negatively by the presence of Catholicism and the availability of divorce, while …

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School competition and students' entrepreneurial intentions : international evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling

Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

School choice research mostly focuses on academic outcomes. Policymakers increasingly view entrepreneurial traits as a non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the effect of private-school competition on students'...

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Knocking on heaven's door? : protestantism and suicide

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 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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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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Tertiary education and prosperity : catholic missionaries to luminosity in India

Castelló-Climent, Amparo; Chaudhary, Latika; … - 2015

This paper estimates the causal impact of tertiary education on luminosity across Indian districts. We address the potential endogeneity of tertiary education using the location of Catholic missionaries in 1911 as an instrument for current tertiary education. We find Catholic missionaries have a...

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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 …

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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 … increasing the chances to be an entrepreneur by around 3% with respect to Catholicism. Our findings, stable across a number of … behaviour. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; religion ; culture ; Protestantism ; Catholicism …

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Catholic schools and bad behavior

Mocan, Naci; Scafidi, Benjamin; Tekin, Erdal - 2002

Although there is a sizeable literature of the effect of private school attendance on academic student outcomes, there is a dearth of studies of the impact of school sector on nonacademic outcomes. Using a rich data set, we analyze the impact of Catholic school attendance on the likelihood that...

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Marital fertility and religion : recent changes in Spain

Adserà, Alícia (contributor) - 2004

Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain have dropped dramatically. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior both in family size and in the spacing of births has...

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