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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087419
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131928
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113089
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123593
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324778
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051452
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016395
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915318
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The Long-Term Direct and External Effects of Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2011
This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany on the educational attainment and political outcomes of German children. We combine a unique city-level dataset on the fraction of Jewish population residing in Germany before the Nazi Regime with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122121
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iPEHD : The Ifo Prussian Economic History Database
Becker, Sascha O. - 2012
covering a rich collection of variables for 19th-century Prussia. The Royal Prussian Statistical Office collected these data in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099741