Protestant economic history of Becker and Woessmann (2009), where Protestantism first led to better education, which in turn …This paper uses recently discovered data on nearly 300 Prussian counties in 1816 to show that Protestantism led to more … explanation, where a Protestant work ethic first led to industrialization which then increased the demand for education. …

that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the … exogenous variation in Protestantism due to a county’s or town’s distance to Wittenberg, the birthplace of the Reformation …

Protestant economic history of Becker and Woessmann (2009), where Protestantism first led to better education, which in turn …This paper uses recently discovered data on nearly 300 Prussian counties in 1816 to show that Protestantism led to more … explanation, where a Protestant work ethic first led to industrialization which then increased the demand for education …

that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the … exogenous variation in Protestantism due to a county's or town's distance to Wittenberg, the birthplace of the Reformation …

crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from late 19thcentury Prussia reveal that Protestantism was indeed … associated not only with higher economic prosperity, but also with better education. We find that Protestants’ higher literacy … the Reformation to use distance to Wittenberg as an instrument for Protestantism. …

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 …

crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from late 19th-century Prussia reveal that Protestantism was indeed … associated not only with higher economic prosperity, but also with better education. We find that Protestants' higher literacy … the Reformation to use distance to Wittenberg as an instrument for Protestantism …

afterlife as two mechanisms by which Protestantism increases suicide propensity. We build a unique micro-regional dataset of 452 … Protestantism around Wittenberg, our instrumental-variable model finds that Protestantism had a substantial positive effect on …

data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education – but not income or urbanization – is …