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A time to print, a time to reform
Boerner, Lars; Rubin, Jared; Severgnini, Battista - 2019
indicates that the press influenced the adoption of Lutheranism and Calvinism, while the clock's effect on the Reformation was …
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A time to print, a time to reform
Boerner, Lars; Rubin, Jared; Severgnini, Battista - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207432
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Reformation and reallocation : religious and secular economic activity in early modern Germany
Cantoni, Davide; Dittmar, Jeremiah; Yuchtman, Noam - 2016
The Protestant Reformation, beginning in 1517, was a first-order economic shock. We document its effects on the … sectoral allocation of economic activity in Germany using highly disaggregated data. During the Reformation, particularly in … secular construction increased. These findings highlight the unintended consequences of the Reformation - a religious movement …
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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
the Reformation to use distance to Wittenberg as an instrument for Protestantism. …
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The effect of protestantism on education before the industrialization : evidence from 1816 Prussia
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
This paper uses recently discovered data on nearly 300 Prussian counties in 1816 to show that Protestantism led to more schools and higher school enrolment already before the industrialization. This evidence supports the human capital theory of Protestant economic history of Becker and Woessmann...
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Knocking on heaven's door? : protestantism and suicide
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011
We model the effect of Protestant vs. Catholic denomination in an economic theory of suicide, accounting for differences in religious-community integration, views about man's impact on God's grace, and the possibility of confessing sins. We test the theory using a unique micro-regional dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153870
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Knocking on heaven's door? : protestantism and suicide
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011
We model the effect of Protestant vs. Catholic denomination in an economic theory of suicide, accounting for differences in religious-community integration, views about man's impact on God's grace, and the possibility of confessing sins. We test the theory using a unique micro-regional dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308813
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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...
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Social cohesion, religious beliefs, and the effect of Protestantism on suicide
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
In an economic theory of suicide, we model social cohesion of the religious community and religious beliefs about afterlife as two mechanisms by which Protestantism increases suicide propensity. We build a unique micro-regional dataset of 452 Prussian counties in 1816-21 and 1869-71, when...
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Weber revisited : the protestant ethic and the spirit of nationalism
Kersting, Felix; Wohnsiedler, Iris; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2020
We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is crucial to both, the interpretation of Weber's Protestant Ethic and empirical tests thereof. For late nineteenth-century Prussia we reject Weber's suggestion that Protestantism...
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