Religion, division of labor and conflict: Anti-semitism in Germany over 600 years
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- dc.contributor.author O. Becker, Sascha
- dc.contributor.author Pascali, Luigi
- dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
- dc.date.accessioned 2020-05-25T09:27:01Z
- dc.date.available 2020-05-25T09:27:01Z
- dc.date.issued 2018-10-01
- dc.date.modified 2020-05-25T09:25:41Z
- dc.description.abstract We study the role of economic incentives in shaping the co-existence of Jews, Catholics and Protestants, using novel data from Germany for 1,000+ cities. The Catholic usury ban and higher literacy rates gave Jews a specific advantage in the moneylending sector. Following the Protestant Reformation (1517), the Jews lost these advantages in regions that became Protestant. We show 1) a change in the geography of anti-Semitism with persecutions of Jews and anti-Jewish publications becoming more common in Protestant areas relative to Catholic areas; 2) a more pronounced change in cities where Jews had already established themselves as moneylenders. These findings are consistent with the interpretation that, following the Protestant Reformation, Jews living in Protestant regions were exposed to competition with the Christian majority, especially in moneylending, leading to an increase in anti-Semitism.
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- dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=1619
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- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44750
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 1619
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- dc.subject.keyword anti-semitism
- dc.subject.keyword religion
- dc.subject.keyword conflict
- dc.subject.keyword division of labor
- dc.subject.keyword Macroeconomics and International Economics
- dc.title Religion, division of labor and conflict: Anti-semitism in Germany over 600 years
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