Replications files for "Winners and Losers from the Protestant Reformation: An Analysis of the Network of European Universities"

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) David de la Croix, IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain; Pauline Morault, CY Cergy Paris Université, CNRS, THEMA

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Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary Using a new database of European academics, we build a network of universities that is based on professors' mobility. We describe how the network was altered following the Protestant Reformation. We focus on fragmentation and on universities' centrality. Dyadic regressions confirm that geography and vernacular languages were important for mobility, but did not substitute for religion. We compare simulated networks with and without religious identity. Most universities lose centrality in the simulated religious network compared to the non-religious one. As publications per university are correlated with centrality, the loss of connectedness of many universities after the Reformation contributed to their scientific decline.

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Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Human capital; Reformation; Universities; Secularization; Network; Publications
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Europe
Universe:  View help for Universe Scholars who taught at a premodern European University
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) other
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes Data collected from secondary sources on the history of universities


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