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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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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 … Protestant economic history of Becker and Woessmann (2009), where Protestantism first led to better education, which in turn …

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A Tale of Minorities: Evidence on Religious Ethics and Entrepreneurship from Swiss Census Data

Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2014

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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The implications of cultural background on labour market choices: The case of religion and entrepreneurship

Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2011

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 …

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The effect of being Protestant on entrepreneurial choice

Wyrwich, Michael - 2018

This brief research note identifies a causal effect of being Protestant on entrepreneurial choice.

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Luther and the girls: religious denomination and the female education gap in 19th century Prussia

Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2008

exogenous variation in Protestantism due to a county's or town's distance to Wittenberg, the birthplace of the Reformation …

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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...

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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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Weber revisited: The protestant ethic and the spirit of nationalism

Kersting, Felix; Wohnsiedler, Iris; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2019

We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is … reject Weber's suggestion that Protestantism mattered due to an "ascetic compulsion to save". Moreover, we find that income …

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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History: A Comment on Becker and Woessmann

Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2009

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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