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dc.contributor.author | Becker, Sascha O. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Woessmann, Ludger | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-10-07 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-11-23T11:32:36Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2011-11-23T11:32:36Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | - |
dc.identifier.pi | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20110621322 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/51671 | - |
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 |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonn | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aIZA Discussion Papers |x5773 | en |
dc.subject.jel | Z12 | en |
dc.subject.jel | N33 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | religion | en |
dc.subject.keyword | suicide | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Prussian economic history | en |
dc.title | Knocking on heaven's door? Protestantism and suicide | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 669472867 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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