@techreport{Becker2011Knocking,
abstract = {We model the effect of Protestant vs. Catholic denomination in an economic theory of suicide, accounting for differences in religious-community integration, views about man's impact on God's grace, and the possibility of confessing sins. We test the theory using a unique micro-regional dataset of 452 counties in 19th-century Prussia, when religiousness was still pervasive. Our instrumental-variable model exploits the concentric dispersion of Protestantism around Wittenberg to circumvent selectivity bias. Protestantism had a substantial positive effect on suicide in 1816-21 and 1869-71. We address issues of bias from mental illness, misreporting, weather conditions, within-county heterogeneity, religious concentration, and gender composition.},
address = {M\"{u}nchen},
author = {Sascha O. Becker and Ludger Woessmann},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {Z12; N33; 330; religion; suicide; Prussian economic history},
language = {eng},
number = {3499},
publisher = {CESifo},
title = {Knocking on heaven's door? Protestantism and suicide},
type = {CESifo working paper: Labour Markets},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/46306},
year = {2011}
}
