Building on the canonical model of skill-biased technical change to incorporate differential effects of technology and … subsequent adoption of computer and information technology and larger decline in routine occupations. Exposure to global imports … smaller as compared to technology. However, when looking at the direction of displacement of routine-workers, regions with …

The Reformation provided a powerful source of legitimacy for secularization of governance and enabled the regional … appropriate, i.e. poorer regions with greater economic potential, should have been more likely to adopt the Reformation. Using …

This paper studies the impact of the Protestant Reformation on wealth distribution and inequality in confessionally … divided Germany, between 1400 and 1800. The Reformation expanded social welfare, but provided it in a particularistic way to … framework, I document that the Reformation exacerbated inequality overall, by making marginal poor people relatively poorer. The …