We study the effect of Protestantism on human capital acquisition using novel data on 234
counties and 2,478 towns in the Korean peninsula in 1930. First, we show that towns with a …

Until the arrival of Protestant missionaries in the 19th century, women in China had little
access to formal education. The Protestant missionaries built the first school, the first college …

We introduce a novel machine learning approach to leverage historical and contemporary
maps and systematically predict economic statistics. Our simple algorithm extracts …

How did America embrace international development? I study the role of American
Protestant missionaries abroad. I use the travel routes of recruiters from the Student …