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Becker, Sascha O. and Woessmann, Ludger (2019) Data for Social cohesion, religious beliefs, and the effect of Protestantism on suicide. [Dataset]
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/P1MIQP
Abstract
In an economic theory of suicide, we model social cohesion of the religious community and religious beliefs about afterlife as two mechanisms by which Protestantism increases suicide propensity. We build a unique micro-regional dataset of 452 Prussian counties in 1816-21 and 1869-71, when religiousness was still pervasive. Exploiting the concentric dispersion of Protestantism around Wittenberg, our instrumental-variable model finds that Protestantism had a substantial positive effect on suicide. Results are corroborated in first-difference models. Tests relating to the two mechanisms based on historical church-attendance data and modern suicide data suggest that the sociological channel plays the more important role.
| Item Type: | Dataset | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||
| Type of Data: | Observational data | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Suicide -- Economic aspects, Suicide -- Religious aspects, Suicide -- Prevention, Suicide -- Social aspects, Suicide -- Statistics | ||||||
| Publisher: | Harvard Dataverse | ||||||
| Official Date: | 27 February 2019 | ||||||
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| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Media of Output: | .do .log .dta | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||
| Copyright Holders: | University of Warwick | ||||||
| Description: | Data record consists of 13 Stata data files, in .do, .log and .dta format, and a readme file. |
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