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Title: Devotion and Development: Religiosity, Education, and Economic Progress in 19th-Century France

Author(s): Mara Squicciarini

Publication Date: July 2019

Keyword(s): Human Capital, Industrialization and Religiosity

Programme Area(s): Economic History and Macroeconomics and Growth

Abstract: This 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 (1870â??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.

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Squicciarini, M. 2019. 'Devotion and Development: Religiosity, Education, and Economic Progress in 19th-Century France'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=13877