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Religion and development in post-famine Ireland
Henderson, Stuart - 2016
This paper employs a variety of economic and financial indicators to examine the relationship between Roman Catholicism and Irish development in the Post-Famine period. County-level decennial data are used for all census years from 1871 to 1911, and Catholicism is instrumented using the distance...
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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 its religious heterogeneity, the Holy Roman Empire presents an ideal testing ground for this hypothesis. Using population figures of 272 cities in the years 1300–1900, I find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427659
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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 its religious heterogeneity, the Holy Roman Empire presents an ideal testing ground for this hypothesis. Using population figures of 272 cities in the years 1300-1900, I find no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009747005
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Did Protestantism Promote Economic Prosperity via Higher Human Capital?
Edwards, Jeremy - 2017
This paper investigates the Becker-Woessmann (2009) argument that Protestants were more prosperous in nineteenth-century Prussia because they were more literate, a version of the Weber thesis, and shows that it cannot be sustained. The econometric analysis on which Becker and Woessman based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947349
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Modernization Before Industrialization : Cultural Roots of the Demographic Transition in France
Blanc, Guillaume - 2021
This research identifies the origins of the early demographic transition in eighteenth-century France. A turning point in history and an essential condition for development, the demographic transition first took hold in France more than a hundred years before any other country—and this event...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230261
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Asabiyya: re-interpreting value change in globalized societies
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009
This article reflects the renewed interest of economics and the social science discipline in value systems and religion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271305
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From worship to worldly pleasures : secularization and long-run economic growth
Strulik, Holger - 2012 - This version: May 2012
speed. In the 20th century, religion played a much lesser role in daily life and income and productivity grew at high and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357676
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The rise and fall of enforcement institutions : an example of religion and secularism
Ciaian, Pavel; Pokrivčák, Ján; Kancs, D'Artis - 2011
less developed civilisations often rely on informal institutions such as religion (RES). The present paper attempts to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524872
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Religious affiliation and economic performance of Romanian emigrants : an empirical approach
Roman, Monica; Goschin, Zizi - 2011
Although migration and religion studies have traditionally developed as separate research topics, in the current … studies of migration raise the importance and role of religion in the international migration flows, distinguish between the … reconfiguration of religions in the contemporary world. Religion often inspires migration, as religious minority groups facing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542562
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Secularization and long-run economic growth
Strulik, Holger - 2015 - Revised Version: March 2015
This paper integrates a simple theory of identity choice into a framework of endogenous economic growth to explain how secularization can be both cause and consequence of economic development. A secular identity allows an individual to derive more pleasure from consumption than religious...
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