connection between Protestantism and attitudes toward work. Using micro-data from contemporary Germany, this paper investigates … the impact of Protestantism on economic outcomes and whether any such connection still exists. To break the endogeneity in … today, Protestantism leads to higher earnings through increased hours of work, and substantially more self …

We investigate the effect of Reformed Protestantism, relative to Catholicism, on preferences for leisure, and for … Protestantism. We find that Reformed Protestantism reduces referenda voting for more leisure by 12, for redistribution by 7, and for …