Squicciarini, Mara P. - 2019 - This version: 14th July 2019
lower economic development only during the Second Industrial Revolution, but not before. Schooling appears to be the key …This paper uses a historical setting to study when religion can be a barrier to the diffusion of knowledge and economic … development, and through which mechanism. I focus on 19th-century Catholicism and analyze a crucial phase of modern economic …