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Article: Diffusing knowledge while spreading god's message: Protestantism and economic prosperity in China, 1840-1920
Title | Diffusing knowledge while spreading god's message: Protestantism and economic prosperity in China, 1840-1920 |
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Issue Date | 2015 |
Citation | Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, v. 13, n. 4, p. 669-698 How to Cite? |
Abstract | © 2014 by the European Economic Association. We provide an account of how Protestantism promoted economic prosperity in China-a country in which Protestant missionaries penetrated far and wide during 1840-1920, but only a tiny fraction of the population had converted to Christianity. By exploiting the spatial variation in the missionaries' retreat due to the Boxer Uprising to identify the diffusion of Protestantism, we find that the conversion of an additional communicant per 10,000 people increases the overall urbanization rate by 18.8% when evaluated at the mean. Moreover, 90% of this effect comes from knowledge diffusion activities associated with schools and hospitals erected by the missionaries. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/257126 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 3.9 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 6.658 |
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dc.contributor.author | Bai, Ying | - |
dc.contributor.author | Kung, James Kai Sing | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-24T08:58:55Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-07-24T08:58:55Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, v. 13, n. 4, p. 669-698 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1542-4766 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/257126 | - |
dc.description.abstract | © 2014 by the European Economic Association. We provide an account of how Protestantism promoted economic prosperity in China-a country in which Protestant missionaries penetrated far and wide during 1840-1920, but only a tiny fraction of the population had converted to Christianity. By exploiting the spatial variation in the missionaries' retreat due to the Boxer Uprising to identify the diffusion of Protestantism, we find that the conversion of an additional communicant per 10,000 people increases the overall urbanization rate by 18.8% when evaluated at the mean. Moreover, 90% of this effect comes from knowledge diffusion activities associated with schools and hospitals erected by the missionaries. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of the European Economic Association | - |
dc.title | Diffusing knowledge while spreading god's message: Protestantism and economic prosperity in China, 1840-1920 | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/jeea.12113 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84937702425 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 13 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 4 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 669 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 698 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1542-4774 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000358687300004 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1542-4766 | - |