Christoph Basten|Frank Betz
Beyond Work Ethic: Religion, Individual, and Political Preferences
Swiss Finance Institute|ETH Zurich|European Investment Bank
investigate effect reformed protestantism relative catholicism preferences leisure redistribution intervention economy use fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design exploit historical quasiexperiment western switzerland sixteenth century hitherto homogeneous region split one part assigned adopt protestantism find reformed protestantism reduces referenda voting leisure 14 redistribution 5 government intervention 7 percentage points preferences translate higher per capita income well greater income inequality jel d12 d31 d72 h23 n33 z12