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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 …

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The protestant fiscal ethic : religious confession and euro skepticism in Germany

Chadi, Adrian; Krapf, Matthias - 2015

countries with Protestant majorities were able to avoid fiscal problems. Survey data show that, within Germany, views on the …

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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 …-century Prussia we reject Weber's suggestion that Protestantism mattered due to an "ascetic compulsion to save". Moreover, we ﬁnd that …

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Rooted to the soil : the impact of social housing on population in Ireland since 1911

De Bromhead, Alan; Lyons, Ronan C. - 2021

How does housing policy influence the distribution of population? We examine the impact of the world's first large-scale rural public housing scheme on the long-term dynamics of rural population, specifically the case of Ireland's Labourers Acts. We link detailed data on the location of over...

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Afterlives : testimonies of Irish Catholic mothers on infant death and the fate of the unbaptised

Kennedy, Liam - 2019

Children growing up in the Ireland of the 1950s will have a clear remembrance of a metaphysical space or place known as Limbo. For Catholics, though not Irish Protestants, this formed part of a spiritual cosmos which viewed Heaven and Hell as opposite poles, with Purgatory and Limbo occupying...

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Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis : religion and female employment over time

Fischer, Justina A. V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015

This study analyses whether the role of religion for employment of married women in Europe has changed over time and along women's life cycles. Using information on 44'000 married European women from the World Values Survey 1981-2013, we find that in OECD-Europe there is little difference among...

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Culture, institutions & the long divergence

Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021

Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...

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Religiosity, smoking and other addictive behaviors

Roman, Monica; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Plopeanu, … - 2021

While under communism, identity-providing religion was suppressed, religiosity is strong today even among the youth in post-communist countries. This provides an appropriate background to investigate how external and internal religiosity relates to addictive behaviors like smoking, drinking and...

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Religious attendance and COVID-19 : evidences from Italian regions

Alfano, Vincenzo; Ercolano, Salvatore; Vecchione, Gaetano - 2020

By changing many aspects of everyday life, the COVID-19 pandemic and the social distance policies implemented to face it have affected the behaviour of many people, all over the world. Has the pandemic also affected people approach toward the divine? Previous evidences suggest that the prayer...

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Elite influence? : religion, economics, and the rise of the Nazis ; conference paper

Spenkuch, Jörg L.; Tillmann, Philipp - 2014

Adolf Hitler's seizure of power was one of the most consequential events of the twentieth century. Yet, our understanding of which factors fueled the astonishing rise of the Nazis remains highly incomplete. This paper shows that religion played an important role in the Nazi party's electoral...

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