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100			_aSquicciarini, Mara P. _926429
245			_aDevotion and development: Religiosity, education, and economic progress in nineteenth-century france
260			_aThe American Economic Review
300			_a110(11), Nov, 2020: p.3454-3491
520			_aThis 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. - Reproduced
773			_aThe American Economic Review
906			_aEDUCATION - FRANCE
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