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Why Did the Netherlands Develop so Early? The Legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life

Akcomak, Semih - 2013

This research provides an explanation for high literacy, economic growth and societal developments in the Netherlands in the period before the Dutch Republic. We establish a link between the Brethren of the Common Life (BCL), a religious community founded by Geert Groote in the city of Deventer...

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Catch Me If You Can : Education and Catch-Up in the Industrial Revolution

Becker, Sascha O. - 2009

Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional …

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Protestantism and Education : Reading (the Bible) and Other Skills

Boppart, Timo - 2011

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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The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights

Doepke, Matthias - 2012

Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared to developed countries. Historically, even in countries that are now rich women had few rights before economic development took...

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Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide

Becker, Sascha O. - 2011

. We test the theory using a unique micro-regional dataset of 452 counties in 19th-century Prussia, when religiousness was … 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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Luther and the Girls : Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

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

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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Maloney, William F. - 2014

Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...

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Human Capital Persistence and Development

Rocha, Rudi - 2015

This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted a pool of immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th...

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Bismarck's Health Insurance and the Mortality Decline

Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2018

We study the impact of social health insurance on mortality. Using the introduction of compulsory health insurance in the German Empire in 1884 as a natural experiment, we estimate flexible difference-in-differences models exploiting variation in eligibility for insurance across occupations. Our...

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Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing : Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land

Bartels, Charlotte - 2020

What are the long-term economic effects of a more equal distribution of wealth? We exploit variation in historical inheritance rules for land in Germany. In some German areas, inherited land was to be shared or divided equally among children, while in others land was ruled to be indivisible....

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