| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23934 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23934 |
| Religious Competition and Reallocation: The Political Economy of Secularization in the Protestant Reformation | |
| Davide Cantoni; Jeremiah Dittmar; Noam Yuchtman | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-10-16 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Using novel microdata, we document an unintended, first-order consequence of the Protestant Reformation: a massive reallocation of resources from religious to secular purposes. To understand this process, we propose a conceptual framework in which the introduction of religious competition shifts political markets where religious authorities provide legitimacy to rulers in exchange for control over resources. Consistent with our framework, religious competition changed the balance of power between secular and religious elites: secular authorities acquired enormous amounts of wealth from monasteries closed during the Reformation, particularly in Protestant regions. This transfer of resources had important consequences. First, it shifted the allocation of upper-tail human capital. Graduates of Protestant universities increasingly took secular, especially administrative, occupations. Protestant university students increasingly studied secular subjects, especially degrees that prepared students for public sector jobs, rather than church sector-specific theology. Second, it affected the sectoral composition of fixed investment. Particularly in Protestant regions, new construction shifted from religious toward secular purposes, especially the building of palaces and administrative buildings, which reflected the increased wealth and power of secular lords. Reallocation was not driven by preexisting economic or cultural differences. Our findings indicate that the Reformation played an important causal role in the secularization of the West. |
| 主题 | Macroeconomics ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; History ; Macroeconomic History ; Labor and Health History |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23934 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/581607 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Davide Cantoni,Jeremiah Dittmar,Noam Yuchtman. Religious Competition and Reallocation: The Political Economy of Secularization in the Protestant Reformation. 2017. |
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| w23934.pdf（809KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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