Replication data for: Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Sascha O. Becker; Ludger Woessmann
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Project Citation:
Becker, Sascha O., and Woessmann, Ludger. Replication data for: Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2013. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112635V1
Project Description
Summary:
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The interplay between religion and the economy has long occupied social scientists. We construct a unique panel of income and Protestant church attendance using 175 Prussian counties, presented in six waves from 1886 to 1911. The data reveal a marked decline in church attendance coinciding with increasing income. The cross-section also shows a negative association between income and church attendance. The associations disappear in panel analyses, including first-differenced models of the 1886 to 1911 change, panel models with county and time fixed effects, and panel Granger-causality tests. The results cast doubt on causal interpretations of the religion-economy nexus in Prussian secularization.
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E23 Macroeconomics: Production
N13 Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: Europe: Pre-1913
N33 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913
N93 Regional and Urban History: Europe: Pre-1913
Z12 Cultural Economics: Religion
E23 Macroeconomics: Production
N13 Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: Europe: Pre-1913
N33 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913
N93 Regional and Urban History: Europe: Pre-1913
Z12 Cultural Economics: Religion
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