Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History *
Has this study been replicated?
The atlas records 1 reproduction of this study. Recorded outcomes: 1 mixed.
Reproductions
- Did Protestantism promote prosperity via higher human capital? Replicating the Becker–Woessmann (2009) results, Edwards (2021). Journal of Applied Econometrics. Outcome recorded: computationally reproducible, robustness challenges.
Computational: Table 1 replicates, in the first two columns, the regressions used by BW to estimate the total effects of Protestantism on the three prosperity measures. The point estimates are identical to those reported by BW.
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Becker, S. O., & Woessmann, L. (2009). Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History *. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124(2), 531–596. https://doi.org/10.1162/qjec.2009.124.2.531
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