Sascha O. Becker|Ludger Woessmann
Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties
University of Warwick|Ifo Institute for Economic Research
interplay religion economy long occupied social scientists construct unique panel income protestant church attendance using 175 prussian counties presented six waves 1886 1911 data reveal marked decline church attendance coinciding increasing income crosssection also shows negative association income church attendance associations disappear panel analyses including firstdifferenced models 1886 1911 change panel models county time fixed effects panel grangercausality tests results cast doubt causal interpretations religioneconomy nexus prussian secularization