An Economic Analysis of the Protestant Reformation

By Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., Robert F. Hébert, R. Tollison. Journal of Political Economy, 2002

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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1. Christian Bjørnskov
2. Pierre-Guillaume Méon
3. Niclas Berggren
4. Andreas Bergh
5. P. T. Dinesen
6. J. Sørensen

In Economics and Econometrics

1. Christian Bjørnskov
2. Niklas Potrafke
3. Pierre-Guillaume Méon
4. N. J. Foss
5. J. Sørensen

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1. Christian Bjørnskov
2. Niklas Potrafke
3. Andreas Bergh
4. Pierre-Guillaume Méon
5. Niclas Berggren
6. Axel Dreher
7. Justina A. V. Fischer
8. J. Sørensen

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• Determinants of generalized trust: A cross-country comparison (2007, background): “Alternatively, Protestantism might reflect an even deeper source of trust, as Ekelund et al. (2002) show that the success of the reformation in certain European societies crucially depended on a relatively high degree of social mobility already existing at the time, which reduced the possibilities”