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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Becker, Sascha O. | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Woessmann, Ludger | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2011-06-22 | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2011-06-29T11:15:11Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2011-06-29T11:15:11Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2011 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/46306 | | - |
| dc.description.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. | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | CESifo München | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | CESifo working paper: Labour Markets 3499 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | Z12 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | N33 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | religion | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | suicide | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | Prussian economic history | | en_US |
| dc.title | | Knocking on heaven's door? Protestantism and suicide | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 66265806X | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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