religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on … cultural background has a significant effect on the individual propensity to become an entrepreneur, with Protestantism … increasing the chances to be an entrepreneur by around 3% with respect to Catholicism. Our findings, stable across a number of …

Protestantism is associated with economic freedom, Islam is not, with Catholicism in between. The Protestant ethic requires economic …, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic … that Protestantism is most conducive to economic freedom. …

Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to … the geographical distribution of confessions across Swiss cantons, we find that Protestantism is associated with a …

Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to … the geographical distribution of confessions across Swiss cantons, we find that Protestantism is associated with a …

differences between Catholicism and Protestantism have decreased, Catholics are still less likely than Protestants to commit or …

. Protestants could decrease from 47 to 39 percent over the same period, establishing Catholicism as the largest religion among …

still pervasive. Our instrumental-variable model exploits the concentric dispersion of Protestantism around Wittenberg to … circumvent selectivity bias. Protestantism had a substantial positive effect on suicide in 1816-21 and 1869-71. We address issues … gender composition. -- religion ; suicide ; Prussian economic history …