Squicciarini, Mara P. - 2019 - This version: 14th July 2019
This paper uses a historical setting to study when religion can be a barrier to the diffusion of knowledge and economic … secondary sources, I exploit preexisting variation in the intensity of Catholicism (i.e., religiosity) among French districts … and cantons. I show that, despite a stable spatial distribution of religiosity over time, more religious locations had …