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or exists at all. Are there observable denomination-based differences in work ethic or is Protestantism only a veil … hiding the underlying role of education? We use recent data to explore the role of Protestantism on work ethic. The results …
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crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from late 19th-century Prussia reveal that Protestantism was indeed … the Reformation to use distance to Wittenberg as an instrument for Protestantism. …
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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 …
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Our paper addresses what the moral foundations of accounting are, regardless of capitalistic operations, as we are seeking to trace a genealogy of accounting thinking disconnected from coincidence with Capitalism. We demonstrate that the three monotheisms have bared the core of accounting. We...
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entrepreneurship within one specific branch of Christianity, namely, Protestantism. Using a unique sample of 756 Christian protestant …
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culture and religion merely reflect the latter? We explore this issue by studying the case of Protestantism in China during … socioeconomic indicators in 2000, we find that the spread of Protestantism has generated significant positive effects in long …
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Article about the role of Protestantism in shaping the conditions for successful social and economic development of the … state. The author compares the Orthodoxy in Russia and European Protestantism as the ideological foundation of ensuring …
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We propose a new methodology for identifying the causal effect of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the decision to … Protestantism increasing the probability to be an entrepreneur by around 5 percentage points with respect to Catholicism. Our …
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exogenous variation in Protestantism due to a county's or town's distance to Wittenberg, the birthplace of the Reformation …
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This paper deals with the recently revealed paradox that contemporary Muslims demonstrate a stronger Protestant work ethic (PWE) than contemporary Protestants do. I test whether this paradox is supported in a multilevel analysis on internationally comparative WVS data. According to Inglehart’s...
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