Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties
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- Sascha O. Becker & Ludger Woessmann, 2013. "Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 103(3), pages 539-544, May.
- Sascha Becker & Ludger Woessmann & Sascha O. Becker, 2013. "Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties," CESifo Working Paper Series 4115, CESifo.
- Woessmann, Ludger & Becker, Sascha O., 2013. "Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties," CEPR Discussion Papers 9299, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Becker, Sascha O. & Woessmann, Ludger, 2013. "Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties," IZA Discussion Papers 7151, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Becker, Sascha O. & Woessmann, Ludger, 2013. "Not the Opium of the People : Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties," Economic Research Papers 270546, University of Warwick - Department of Economics.
- Becker, Sascha O. & Ludger Woessmann, Ludger, 2013. "Not the Opium of the People : Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties," The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) 1003, University of Warwick, Department of Economics.
- Becker, Sascha O. & Wößmann, Ludger, 2013. "Not the opium of the people: Income and secularization in a panel of prussian counties," Munich Reprints in Economics 20249, University of Munich, Department of Economics.
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Religion; secularization; Prussian economic history;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E23 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - 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 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- Z12 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Religion
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