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During the European sovereign debt crisis, most countries that ran into fiscal trouble had Catholic majorities, whereas countries with Protestant majorities were able to avoid fiscal problems. Survey data show that, within Germany, views on the euro differ between Protestants and...
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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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This brief research note identifies a causal effect of being Protestant on entrepreneurial choice.
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Protestantism and the emergence of capitalism persists in the popuar imagination as well as the academy. This article illustrates …
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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 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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concentric dispersion of the Reformation to use distance to Wittenberg as an instrument for Protestantism. We find that … Protestantism indeed led to higher economic prosperity, but also to better education. Our results are consistent with Protestants …
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The research proposed by Max Weber on the beginning of the capitalist economic thinking aims to transcend the appearances and conceptual surfaces that have been consolidated over the founding truths of this thinking. Thus, Weber is interested in the origin and evolution of key concepts in the...
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