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Was Weber wrong? : a human capital theory of protestant economic history
Becker, Sascha O. (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497633
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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 …
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Reformation and reallocation : religious and secular economics activity inearly modern Germany
Cantoni, Davide; Dittmar, Jeremiah; Yuchtman, Noam - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587134
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Protestantism and human capital in Guatemala and the Republic of Korea
McCleary, Rachel M. - 2013
Protestant missions from the United States entered the Republic of Korea and Guatemala at the same time (1884 and 1882, respectively). Yet, their impact on human capital has been divergent. The analysis presented in this paper supports the findings of Woodberry (2004, 2009, 2011) and Nunn (2009)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009734212
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The effects of the protestant reformation on human capital
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - In: The Oxford handbook of the economics of religion, (pp. 93-110). 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230661
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Protestantism and Human Capital in Guatemala and the Republic of Korea
McCleary, Rachel M. - 2013
Protestant missions from the United States entered the Republic of Korea and Guatemala at the same time (1884 and 1882, respectively). Yet, their impact on human capital has been divergent. The analysis presented in this paper supports the findings of Woodberry (2004, 2009, 2011) and Nunn (2009)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084466
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Women in European academia before 1800 : religion, marriage, and human capital
De la Croix, David; Vitale, Mara - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202858
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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/10012947349
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The Effects of the Protestant Reformation on Human Capital
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - In: The Oxford handbook of the economics of religion. 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012881693
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The protestant legacy : missions, gender, and human capital in India
Calvi, Rossella; Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren; Mantovanelli, … - In: Journal of human resources : JHR 57 (2022) 6, pp. 1946-1980
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