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Religion in economic history: a survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms … Islam and Islamic institutions played in political-economy outcomes and in the "long divergence" between the Middle East and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239065
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Religion in economic history : a survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms … Islam and Islamic institutions played in political-economy outcomes and in the "long divergence" between the Middle East and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229328
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Religion in economic history : a survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418229
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Can schools change religious attitudes? : evidence from German state reforms of compulsory religious education
Arold, Benjamin W.; Woessmann, Ludger; Zierow, Larissa - 2022
We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students’ religiosity as adults. We exploit the staggered termination of compulsory religious education across German states in models with state and cohort fixed effects. Using three different datasets, we find that abolishing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012797041
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Can schools change religious attitudes? : evidence from German state reforms of compulsory religious education
Arold, Benjamin W.; Woessmann, Ludger; Zierow, Larissa - 2022
We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students' religiosity as adults. We exploit the staggered termination of compulsory religious education across German states in models with state and cohort fixed effects. Using three different datasets, we find that abolishing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012804246
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Can schools change religious attitudes? : evidence from German state reforms of compulsory religious education
Arold, Benjamin W.; Woessmann, Ludger; Zierow, Larissa - 2022
We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students’ religiosity as adults. We exploit the staggered termination of compulsory religious education across German states in models with state and cohort fixed effects. Using three different datasets, we find that abolishing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191562
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Implications of the Great Depression for the development of the international monetary system
Bordo, Michael D.; Eichengreen, Barry - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000619660
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Right wing political extremism in the great depression
Bromhead, Alan de; Eichengreen, Barry; O'Rourke, Kevin … - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009526572
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Right wing political extremism in the great depression
Bromhead, Alan de; Eichengreen, Barry; O'Rourke, Kevin … - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009532758
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International policy coordination : the long view
Eichengreen, Barry - 2011
"This paper places current efforts at international economic policy coordination in historical perspective. It argues that successful cooperation is most likely in four sets of circumstances. First, when it centers on technical issues. Second, when cooperation is institutionalized - when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009408552