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- Title
Devotion and Development: Religiosity, Education, and Economic Progress in Nineteenth-Century France.
- Authors
SQUICCIARINI, MARA P.
- Abstract
This paper studies when religion can hamper diffusion of knowledge and economic development, and through which mechanism. I examine Catholicism in France during the Second Industrial Revolution (1870-1914). In this period, technology became skill-intensive, leading to the introduction of technical education in primary schools. I find that more religious locations had lower economic development after 1870. Schooling appears to be the key mechanism: more religious areas saw a slower adoption of the technical curriculum and a push for religious education. In turn, religious education was negatively associated with industrial development 10 to 15 years later, when schoolchildren entered the labor market.
- Subjects
FRANCE; RELIGION &; state; ECONOMICS &; religion; ECONOMIC development; TECHNICAL education; INDUSTRIAL revolution; RELIGION
- Publication
American Economic Review, 2020, Vol 110, Issue 11, p3454
- ISSN
0002-8282
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1257/aer.20191054