Davide Cantoni
Biographic Data
| ID | 5735845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Davide Cantoni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Davide |
| FAMILY NAME | Cantoni |
| SIGNATURE | CANTONI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center for Economic and Policy Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2654-3519 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Curriculum and Ideology
We study the causal effect of school curricula on students' stated beliefs and attitudes. They exploit a major textbook reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths' ideology. To measure its effect, the authors present evidence from a novel survey they conducted among 2,000 students at Peking University. The sharp, staggered introduction of the new curriculum allows the authors to identif…
A Tear in the Iron Curtain: The Impact of Western Television on Consumption Behavior
This paper examines the impact of exposure to foreign media on the economic behavior of agents in a totalitarian regime. We study private consumption choices focusing on the former East Germany, where differential access to Western television was determined by geographic features. Using data collected after the transition to a market economy, we find no evidence of a significant impact of previous exposure to Western television on aggregate consu…
The Economic Effects of the Protestant Reformation: Testing the Weber Hypothesis in the German Lands
Following Max Weber, many theories have hypothesized that Protestantism should have favored economic development. With its religious heterogeneity, the Holy Roman Empire presents an ideal testing ground for this hypothesis. Using population figures of 272 cities in the years 1300–1900, I find no effects of Protestantism on economic growth. The finding is precisely estimated, robust to the inclusion of various controls, and does not depend on data…
Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution
We present new data documenting medieval Europe’s Commercial Revolution using information on the establishment of markets in Germany. We use these data to test whether medieval universities played a causal role in expanding economic activity, examining the foundation of Germany’s first universities after 1386 following the papal schism. We find that the trend rate of market establishment breaks upward in 1386 and this break is greatest where the …
The political economy of educational content and development: Lessons from history
Adopting a New Religion: The Case of Protestantism in 16th Century Germany
Using a dataset of territories and cities of the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth century, this article investigates the determinants of adoption and diffusion of Protestantism as a state religion. A territory’s distance to Wittenberg, the city where Martin Luther taught, is a major determinant of adoption. This finding is consistent with a theory of strategic neighbourhood interactions: introducing the Reformation was a risky enterprise for te…
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution
The French Revolution had a momentous impact on neighboring countries. It removed the legal and economic barriers protecting oligarchies, established the principle of equality before the law, and prepared economies for the new industrial opportunities of the second half of the 19th century. We present within-Germany evidence on the long-run implications of these institutional reforms. Occupied areas appear to have experienced more rapid urbanizat…
Curriculum and Ideology
We study the causal effect of school curricula on students' stated beliefs and attitudes. They exploit a major textbook reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths' ideology. To measure its effect, the authors present evidence from a novel survey they conducted among 2,000 students at Peking University. The sharp, staggered introduction of the new curriculum allows the authors to identif…
Adopting a New Religion: The Case of Protestantism in 16th Century Germany
Using a dataset of territories and cities of the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth century, this article investigates the determinants of adoption and diffusion of Protestantism as a state religion. A territory’s distance to Wittenberg, the city where Martin Luther taught, is a major determinant of adoption. This finding is consistent with a theory of strategic neighbourhood interactions: introducing the Reformation was a risky enterprise for te…
The political economy of educational content and development: Lessons from history
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution
The French Revolution had a momentous impact on neighboring countries. It removed the legal and economic barriers protecting oligarchies, established the principle of equality before the law, and prepared economies for the new industrial opportunities of the second half of the 19th century. We present within-Germany evidence on the long-run implications of these institutional reforms. Occupied areas appear to have experienced more rapid urbanizat…
Adopting a New Religion: The Case of Protestantism in 16th Century Germany
Using a dataset of territories and cities of the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth century, this article investigates the determinants of adoption and diffusion of Protestantism as a state religion. A territory’s distance to Wittenberg, the city where Martin Luther taught, is a major determinant of adoption. This finding is consistent with a theory of strategic neighbourhood interactions: introducing the Reformation was a risky enterprise for te…
The political economy of educational content and development: Lessons from history
Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution
We present new data documenting medieval Europe’s Commercial Revolution using information on the establishment of markets in Germany. We use these data to test whether medieval universities played a causal role in expanding economic activity, examining the foundation of Germany’s first universities after 1386 following the papal schism. We find that the trend rate of market establishment breaks upward in 1386 and this break is greatest where the …
The Economic Effects of the Protestant Reformation: Testing the Weber Hypothesis in the German Lands
Following Max Weber, many theories have hypothesized that Protestantism should have favored economic development. With its religious heterogeneity, the Holy Roman Empire presents an ideal testing ground for this hypothesis. Using population figures of 272 cities in the years 1300–1900, I find no effects of Protestantism on economic growth. The finding is precisely estimated, robust to the inclusion of various controls, and does not depend on data…
A Tear in the Iron Curtain: The Impact of Western Television on Consumption Behavior
This paper examines the impact of exposure to foreign media on the economic behavior of agents in a totalitarian regime. We study private consumption choices focusing on the former East Germany, where differential access to Western television was determined by geographic features. Using data collected after the transition to a market economy, we find no evidence of a significant impact of previous exposure to Western television on aggregate consu…
Curriculum and Ideology
We study the causal effect of school curricula on students' stated beliefs and attitudes. They exploit a major textbook reform in China that was rolled out between 2004 and 2010 with the explicit intention of shaping youths' ideology. To measure its effect, the authors present evidence from a novel survey they conducted among 2,000 students at Peking University. The sharp, staggered introduction of the new curriculum allows the authors to identif…
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (5 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · China (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works)