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Malthus meets Luther : the economics behind the German Reformation
Curuk, Malik; Smulders, Sjak - 2016
The Reformation provided a powerful source of legitimacy for secularization of governance and enabled the regional authorities to change the institutional structure to eliminate the inefficiencies under the prevailing (Catholic) regime. We investigate this idea in a simple model of regime change...
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Nine protestants are to be esteemed worth ten catholics. Representing religion, labour and economic performance in pre-Industrial Europe, c.1650 - c.1800.
Lambrecht, Thijs A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
Religion was one of the factors that was frequently identified by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century economists as exerting an important influence on the pre-industrial European economies. These writers were especially interested in the economic effects of the Reformation on the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325674
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Monotheism (from a Sociopolitical and Economic Perspective)
Iyigun, Murat - 2007
The Axial Age, which lasted between 800 B. C. E. and 200 B. C. E., covers an era in which the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in various geographic areas, and all three major monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born between 1200 B. C....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775813
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Lessons from the Ottoman Harem (on Ethnicity, Religion and War)
Iyigun, Murat - 2021
examine the roles of ethnicity and religion in conflict and war. Based on one theory, the Ottoman conquests were driven by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325107
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Violent conflict and parochial trust : lab-in-the-field and survey evidence
Werner, Katharina; Skali, Ahmed - 2023
How does conflict exposure affect trust? We hypothesize that direct (firsthand) experience with conflict induces … improve. Indirect exposure to conflict through third-party accounts, on the other hand, reduces trust toward everyone. We find …-Muslim conflict during 1999-2002, as well as in three cross-country datasets exploiting temporal and spatial variation in exposure to …
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Ethnic conflict: the role of ethnic representation
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer - 2023
We investigate the impact of the political representation of minority groups on the incidence of ethnic conflict in … results in a large and significant decline in Hindu-Muslim conflict. The average result is driven by richer states and those … curbing civil conflict. …
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Marx vs. Weber : does religion affect politics and the economy?
Basten, Christoph; Betz, Frank - 2011
We investigate the effect of Reformed Protestantism, relative to Catholicism, on preferences for leisure and for redistribution and intervention in the economy. With a Fuzzy Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design, we exploit a historical quasiexperiment in Western Switzerland, where in the 16th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009380943
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Beyond Work Ethic : Religion, Individual and Political Preferences
Basten, Christoph - 2012
We investigate the effect of Reformed Protestantism, relative to Catholicism, on preferences for leisure, and for redistribution and intervention in the economy. We use a Fuzzy Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design to exploit a historical quasi-experiment in Western Switzerland, where in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101628
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Marx vs. Weber : Does Religion Affect Politics and the Economy?
Basten, Christoph; Betz, Frank - 2021
We investigate the effect of Reformed Protestantism, relative to Catholicism, on preferences for leisure and for redistribution and intervention in the economy. With a Fuzzy Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design, we exploit a historical quasiexperiment in Western Switzerland, where in the 16th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315962
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The Alabaster Ceiling: The Gender Legacy of the Papal States
Harka, Elona; Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2023
We examine the gender legacy of past institutions by comparing Italian municipalities located in a narrow band across the borders between the former Papal States on the one hand, and the former Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Duchy of Modena on the other. Our results show that a century after the...
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