| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP16938 |
| DP16938 In the Name of God! Religiosity and the Transition to Modern Growth | |
| Jeanet Bentzen; Lars Harhoff Andersen | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-01-21 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We test the impact of religiosity on the transition to modern growth. In lack of surveys, we develop a novel measure of religiosity based on the idea that given names reveal preferences and identities of parents, including their religious identity. For validity, we document that individuals who share first name with a major religious figure engage in more religious behaviors, reflected in their choice of studies and professions, loyalty towards the church, and their response to natural disasters. We do so using data for 10,000s of university students in the Holy Roman Empire and 100,000s of authors active during the past 700 years. We proceed to document that individuals with religious first names are less likely to become engineers, doctors, and scientists, or to move on to advanced studies within university. In line with a literature on the crucial role of science and knowledge for the transition to modern growth, we last document that cities across Europe inhabited by more religious individuals grew slower than other cities. To establish causality, we rely on the fact that parental naming practices are independent of choices made by their offspring and we compare very similar individuals (authors or medieval university students), born at the same time in the same area. Our results contribute to a growing literature on societal impacts of religiosity. |
| 主题 | Development Economics ; Economic History ; Macroeconomics and Growth ; Political Economy |
| 关键词 | Science Economic growth Progress Knowledge Human capital Religion Religiosity |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp16938 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/545878 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jeanet Bentzen,Lars Harhoff Andersen. DP16938 In the Name of God! Religiosity and the Transition to Modern Growth. 2022. |
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