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Christian Missionaries and Education in Former African Colonies: How Competition Mattered

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  • Francisco Gallego

    (Instituto de Economía. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.)

  • Robert Woodberry

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Using regional data for about 180 African provinces, we find that measures of Protestant missionary activity in the past are more correlated with schooling variables today than similar measures for Catholic missionary activity, as previous papers have suggested. However, we find that this effect is mainly driven by differences in Catholic areas (ie. areas in which Catholic missionaries were protected from competition from Protestant missionaries in the past). This is not surprising because most former Catholic colonies had a number of restrictions to the operation of Protestant missionaries that benefited Catholic missionaries. Therefore, our results are consistent with an economic rationale in which dierent rules created differences in competitive pressures faced by Catholic and Protestant missionaries.

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  • Francisco Gallego & Robert Woodberry, 2009. "Christian Missionaries and Education in Former African Colonies: How Competition Mattered," Working Papers ClioLab 2, EH Clio Lab. Instituto de Economía. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
    • Handle: RePEc:ioe:clabwp:2
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