Journal Article10.1111/JEEA.12113
Diffusing knowledge while spreading god's message: protestantism and economic prosperity in china, 1840-1920
Ying Bai,James Kai-sing Kung +1 more
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors 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.
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Abstract: 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 diusion of Protestantism, we
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