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A time to print, a time to reform
Börner, Lars; Rubin, Jared; Severgnini, Battista - 2019
indicates that the press influenced the adoption of Lutheranism and Calvinism, while the clock's effect on the Reformation was …
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A time to print, a time to reform
Börner, Lars; Rubin, Jared; Severgnini, Battista - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207432
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Reformation and reallocation : religious and secular economic activity in early modern Germany
Cantoni, Davide; Dittmar, Jeremiah; Yuchtman, Noam - 2016
The Protestant Reformation, beginning in 1517, was a first-order economic shock. We document its effects on the … sectoral allocation of economic activity in Germany using highly disaggregated data. During the Reformation, particularly in … secular construction increased. These findings highlight the unintended consequences of the Reformation - a religious movement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568805
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Did protestantism promote economic prosperity via higher human capital?
Edwards, Jeremy S. S. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011721591
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744952
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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2007
the Reformation to use distance to Wittenberg as an instrument for Protestantism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094299
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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
the Reformation to use distance to Wittenberg as an instrument for Protestantism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703386
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Minorities, human capital and long-rund development : persistence of Armenian and Greek influence in Turkey
Arbatli, Cemal Eren; Gokmen, Gunes - 2016
We study the long-term economic legacy of highly-skilled minorities a century after their wholesale expulsion. Using mass expulsions of Armenian and Greek communities of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century as a unique natural experiment of history, we show that districts with greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581278
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Minorities, Human Capital and Long-Run Development: Persistence of Armenian and Greek Influence in Turkey
Arbatli, Cemal Eren; Gokmen, Gunes - 2016
We study the long-term economic legacy of highly-skilled minorities a century after their wholesale expulsion. Using mass expulsions of Armenian and Greek communities of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century as a unique natural experiment of history, we show that districts with greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584967
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Technology-skill complementarity in the early phase of industrialization
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2016
The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452726