Replication data for: Beyond Work Ethic: Religion, Individual, and Political Preferences
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Christoph Basten; Frank Betz
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Project Citation:
Basten, Christoph, and Betz, Frank. Replication data for: Beyond Work Ethic: Religion, Individual, and Political Preferences. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2013. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114835V1
Project Description
Summary:
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We investigate the effect of Reformed Protestantism, relative to Catholicism, on preferences for leisure, and for redistribution and intervention in the economy. We use a Fuzzy Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design to exploit a historical quasi-experiment in Western Switzerland, where in the sixteenth century a hitherto homogeneous region was split and one part assigned to adopt Protestantism. We find that Reformed Protestantism reduces referenda voting for more leisure by 14, redistribution by 5, and government intervention by 7 percentage points. These preferences translate into higher per capita income as well as greater income inequality.
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JEL Classification:
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D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
D31 Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
H23 Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
N33 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913
Z12 Cultural Economics: Religion
D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
D31 Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
H23 Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
N33 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913
Z12 Cultural Economics: Religion
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