Christianization without economic development: Evidence from missions in Ghana
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Keywords
Economics of religion
Religious diffusion
Path dependence
Long-term economic development
Christian missions
Christianity
Africa
JEL classification
Z12
N3
N37
N97
O15
O112
I25
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This work was supported by the Open Access Publishing Fund of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. We thank Daniela Puzzello, three anonymous referees, Rossella Calvi, Jean-Paul Carvalho, Larry Iannaccone, Jared Rubin and Rohit Ticku for helpful comments. We are grateful to Prince Young Aboagye, Leigh Gardner, and Holger Weiss for kindly sharing data. Meier zu Selhausen gratefully acknowledges financial support from the British Academy (Postdoctoral Fellowship no. pf160051 - Conversion out of Poverty? Exploring the Origins and Long-Term Consequences of Christian Missionary Activities in Africa).
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