indicates that the press influenced the adoption of Lutheranism and Calvinism, while the clock's effect on the Reformation was …

The causes of the Protestant Reformation have long been debated. This paper attempts to revive and econometrically test … the theory that the spread of the Reformation is linked to the spread of the printing press. The proposed causal pathway … is that the printing press permitted the ideas of the Reformation to reach a broader audience. I test this hypothesis by …

The Protestant Reformation, beginning in 1517, was a first-order economic shock. We document its effects on the … sectoral allocation of economic activity in Germany using highly disaggregated data. During the Reformation, particularly in … secular construction increased. These findings highlight the unintended consequences of the Reformation - a religious movement …

the Reformation to use distance to Wittenberg as an instrument for Protestantism. …