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Knocking on Heaven’s Door? Protestantism and Suicide
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We model the effect of Protestant vs. Catholic denomination in an economic theory of suicide, accounting for differences in religious-community integration, views about man’s impact on God’s grace, and the possibility of confessing sins. We test the theory using a unique micro-regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147410
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Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2011
We model the effect of Protestant vs. Catholic denomination in an economic theory of suicide, accounting for differences in religious-community integration, views about man’s impact on God’s grace, and the possibility of confessing sins. We test the theory using a unique micro-regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147747
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Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties
Becker, Sascha; Woessmann, Ludger - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2013
The interplay between religion and the economy has occupied social scientists for long. We construct a unique panel of … income and Protestant church attendance for six waves of up to 175 Prussian counties spanning 1886-1911. The data reveal a … marked decline in church attendance coinciding with increasing income. The cross-section also shows a negative association …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010758523
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Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The interplay between religion and the economy has occupied social scientists for long. We construct a unique panel of … income and Protestant church attendance for six waves of up to 175 Prussian counties spanning 1886-1911. The data reveal a … marked decline in church attendance coinciding with increasing income. The cross-section also shows a negative association …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010660256
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Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
The interplay between religion and the economy has occupied social scientists for long. We construct a unique panel of … income and Protestant church attendance for six waves of up to 175 Prussian counties spanning 1886-1911. The data reveal a … marked decline in church attendance coinciding with increasing income. The cross-section also shows a negative association …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084066
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Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2013
The interplay between religion and the economy has occupied social scientists for long. We construct a unique panel of … income and Protestant church attendance for six waves of up to 175 Prussian counties spanning 1886-1911. The data reveal a … marked decline in church attendance coinciding with increasing income. The cross-section also shows a negative association …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877739
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Social Cohesion, Religious Beliefs, and the Effect of Protestantism on Suicide
Sascha O, Becker; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2015
In an economic theory of suicide, we model social cohesion of the religious community and religious beliefs about afterlife as two mechanisms by which Protestantism increases suicide propensity. We build a unique micro-regional dataset of 452 Prussian counties in 1816-21 and 1869-71, when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212081
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School Accountability, Autonomy and Choice Around the World
Woessmann, Ludger; Luedemann, Elke; Schuetz, Gabriela; … - Edward Elgar
Accountability, autonomy and choice are now the watchwords of education reformers around the globe. This book presents …
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Education Promoted Secularization
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education but not income or urbanization is negatively … data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196370
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School Accountability
Figlio, David; Loeb, Susanna - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education
Republican federal administrations' education policies. This chapter reviews the theory of school-based accountability, describes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914675