| | | Becker, Sascha O. | | Rubin, Jared | | Woessmann, Ludger | | Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA) | | | Religion in Economic History: A Survey | | | Bonn | | Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA) | | 2020 | | IZA DP No. 13371 | | | "(...) This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both
socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the
three main monotheisms—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and on the period up to WWII. Works on Judaism
address Jewish occupational specialization, human capital, emancipation, and the causes and consequences of
Jewish persecution. One set of papers on Christianity studies the role of the Catholic Church in European
economic history since the medieval period. Taking advantage of newly digitized data and advanced
econometric techniques, the voluminous literature on the Protestant Reformation studies its socioeconomic
causes as well as its consequences for human capital, secularization, political change, technology diffusion,
and social outcomes. Works on missionaries show that early access to Christian missions still has political,
educational, and economic consequences in present-day Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Much of the
economics of Islam focuses on the role that Islam and Islamic institutions played in political-economy
outcomes and in the "long divergence" between the Middle East and Western Europe. Finally, cross-country
analyses seek to understand the broader determinants of religious practice and its various effects across the
world. (...)" | | |  hier klicken (PDF 551 KB) | |  Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA) | |
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