Winners and Losers from the Protestant Reformation: An Analysis of the Network of European Universities

David de la Croix and Pauline Morault ()
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Pauline Morault: Université de Cergy-Pontoise, THEMA

No 2022-11, THEMA Working Papers from THEMA (THéorie Economique, Modélisation et Applications), Université de Cergy-Pontoise

Abstract: Using a new database of European academics,we provide a global view of the eect of the Protestant Reformation on the network of universities and on their individual importance within the network (centrality). A connection (edge) between two universities (nodes) is dened by the presence of the same scholar in both universities. Protestantism strongly impacted the structure of the network. Dyadic regressions conrm that geography was important as well, but does not substitute for the eect of religion. We isolate the eect of religion on each university centrality comparing simulated networks with and without religious identity. The reorganization of the network induced by the Reformation harmed Protestant universities less than Catholics. As the number of publications per university is strongly correlated with centrality, our simulations lend credence to the view that the loss of connectedness of the Southern European universities after the (Counter-)Reformation was important in triggering their scientic demise.

Keywords: Upper-Tail Human Capital; Universities; Network; Centrality; Publications; Fragmentation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I25 N33 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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Working Paper: Winners and Losers from the Protestant Reformation: An Analysis of the Network of European Universities (2023)
Working Paper: Winners and Losers from the Protestant Reformation: An Analysis of the Network of European Universities (2020)
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