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Was Weber wrong?: a human capital theory of protestant economic history

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2007

Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from...

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Was Weber wrong? A human capital theory of protestant economic history

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2007

Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268262

Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History

Becker, Sascha O.; Wößmann, Ludger - 2007

Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427495

How did Japan catch-up on the West? : a sectoral analysis of Anglo-Japanese productivity differences, 1885 - 2000

Broadberry, Stephen N.; Fukao, Kyōji; Zammit, Nick - 2015

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Seven centuries of European economic growth and decline

Fouquet, Roger; Broadberry, Stephen N. - In: The journal of economic perspectives : EP ; a journal … 29 (2015) 4, pp. 227-244

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Growing, shrinking, and long run economic performance : historical perspectives on economic development

Broadberry, Stephen N.; Wallis, John Joseph - 2017

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Growing, shrinking and long run economic performance : historical perspectives on economic development

Broadberry, Stephen N.; Wallis, John Joseph - 2017

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How did Japan catch-up on the west? : a sectoral analysis of Anglo-Japanese productivity differences, 1885 - 2000

Broadberry, Stephen N.; Fukao, Kyōji; Zammit, Nick - 2015

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290949

Wars, local political institutions, and fiscal capacity : evidence from six centuries of German history

Becker, Sascha O.; Ferrara, Andreas; Melander, Eric; … - 2018 - This version: 19 December 2018

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Labor productivity in the United States and the United Kingdom during the nineteenth century

Broadberry, Stephen N.; Irwin, Douglas A. - 2004

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