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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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This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … studies the role of the Catholic Church in European economic history since the medieval period. Taking advantage of newly … history. Third, many socioeconomic factors matter in the historical development of religions. …
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This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … studies the role of the Catholic Church in European economic history since the medieval period. Taking advantage of newly … history. Third, many socioeconomic factors matter in the historical development of religions. …
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Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...
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