Konferenzbeitrag
Education Promoted Secularization
Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of advanced-school enrollment and Protestant church attendance in German cities between 1890 and 1930. Our cross-sectional estimates replicate a positive association. By contrast, in panel models where fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education but not income or urbanization is negatively related to church attendance. In panel models with lagged explanatory variables, educational expansion precedes reduced church attendance.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2014: Evidenzbasierte Wirtschaftspolitik - Session: Religion and Secularization ; No. F11-V1
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Cultural Economics: Religion
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913
Education and Research Institutions: General
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secularization
education
history
Germany
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Becker, Sascha O.
Nagler, Markus
Woessmann, Ludger
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
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Kiel und Hamburg
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2014
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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- Konferenzbeitrag
Beteiligte
- Becker, Sascha O.
- Nagler, Markus
- Woessmann, Ludger
- ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
Entstanden
- 2014
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