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Was Weber wrong? : a human capital theory of protestant economic history
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2007 - This version: January 22, 2007
crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from late 19th-century Prussia reveal that Protestantism was indeed … the Reformation to use distance to Wittenberg as an instrument for Protestantism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003470491
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Was Weber wrong? : a human capital theory of protestant economic history ; a comment on Becker and Woessmann
Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Torgler, Benno - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003851623
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Was Weber wrong? : A human capital theory of protestant economic history
Becker, Sascha O. (contributor);  … - 2007
crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from late 19th-century Prussia reveal that Protestantism was indeed … the Reformation to use distance to Wittenberg as an instrument for Protestantism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003610049
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Was Weber wrong? : a human capital theory of Protestant economic history
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - In: The quarterly journal of economics 124 (2009) 2, pp. 531-596
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003862261
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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from late 19th-century Prussia reveal that Protestantism was indeed … the Reformation to use distance to Wittenberg as an instrument for Protestantism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317061
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Why did the Netherlands develop so early? : the legacy of the Brethren of the common life
Akçomak, İbrahim Semih; Webbkink, Dinand; Weel, Bas ter - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691727
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Why did the Netherlands develop so early? : the legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life
Akçomak, İbrahim Semih; Webbink, Herman Dinand; Weel, … - 2013
This research provides an explanation for high literacy, economic growth and societal developments in the Netherlands in the period before the Dutch Republic. We establish a link between the Brethren of the Common Life (BCL), a religious community founded by Geert Groote in the city of Deventer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009697679
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Why Did the Netherlands Develop so Early? The Legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life
Akcomak, Semih - 2013
This research provides an explanation for high literacy, economic growth and societal developments in the Netherlands in the period before the Dutch Republic. We establish a link between the Brethren of the Common Life (BCL), a religious community founded by Geert Groote in the city of Deventer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087419
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Why did the Netherlands develop so early? : the legacy of the brethren of the common life
Akçomak, İbrahim Semih; Webbink, Herman Dinand; Weel, … - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 126 (2016) 593, pp. 821-860
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011616891
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The economic effects of the protestant reformation : testing the Weber hypothesis in the German lands
Cantoni, Davide - 2013
Following Max Weber, many theories have hypothesized that Protestantism should have favored economic development. With … figures of 272 cities in the years 1300-1900, I find no effects of Protestantism on economic growth. The finding is precisely …. Protestantism has no effect when interacted with other likely determinants of economic development. Instrumental variables estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009747005