@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp5773,
            	author={Becker, Sascha O. and Woessmann, Ludger},
            	title={Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide},
            	year={2011},
	month={Jun},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={5773},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp5773},
	abstract={We model the effect of Protestant vs. Catholic denomination in an economic theory of suicide, accounting for differences in religious-community integration, views about man's impact on God's grace, and the possibility of confessing sins. We test the theory using a unique micro-regional dataset of 452 counties in 19th-century Prussia, when religiousness was still pervasive. Our instrumental-variable model exploits the concentric dispersion of Protestantism around Wittenberg to circumvent selectivity bias. Protestantism had a substantial positive effect on suicide in 1816-21 and 1869-71. We address issues of bias from mental illness, misreporting, weather conditions, within-county heterogeneity, religious concentration, and gender composition.},
	keywords={Prussian economic history;suicide;religion},
            }