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1、AmericanEconomicReview:Papers&Proceedings100(May2010):147–152http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/aer.100.2.147ReligiousConversioninColonialAfricaByNathanNunn*Withineconomics,therehasbeenarecentIyigun(2008),whichprovidesevidencelinkingefforttobette
2、runderstandthenotionofculture,theProtestantReformationtothesixteenth-typicallydefinedasbeliefs,values,andnormscenturyexpansionoftheOttomanEmpireintoheldbyindividuals.EmpiricalworkhasfocusedcontinentalEurope.onidentifyingsystematicculturaldifferencesbetweenin
3、dividualsfromdifferentethnicandI. HistoricalBackgroundnationalbackgrounds.Morerecently,attentionhasturnedtothehistoricaloriginsofculturalInthelatenineteenthandearlytwentiethcen-differences(e.g.,LuigiGuiso,PaoloSapienza,turies,Africawitnessedanexplosionofmiss
4、ion-andLuigiZingales2008;NathanNunnandaryactivity.ThesuccessofmissionariesduringLeonardWantchekon2009).thisperiodwasdueinlargeparttotheonsetofColonialAfricaprovidesanaturallaboratorycolonialrule,whichmadecleartoAfricansthetoexaminehowanexternalinterventionca
5、nbenefitofEuropeaneducation.RobinHortonhavelastingimpactsonpeople’sbeliefsandval-writes:“Withtheadventofthetwentiethcen-ues.ThisstudyexaminestheeffectofEuropeantury…EuropeanscametobeseenassymbolsmissionaryactivitiesincolonialAfricaontheofpower,andChristianit
6、yitselfcametobeseensubsequentevolutionofculture,asmeasuredbyaspartofalargerorder,comprisingWesternreligiousbeliefs.Theempiricalresultsshowthateducation,colonialadministration,commercedescendantsofethnicgroupsthatexperiencedandindustry,withwhicheveryonehadhen
7、ce-greatermissionarycontactaretodaymoreforthtoreckon.Thesechangescreatedamuchlikelytoself-identifyasChristian.Thiscorrela-morefavorableclimateforconversion.”(Hortontionprovidesevidencethatforeignmissionaries1971,86).Theprovisionofeducationsoonalteredtherelig
8、iousbeliefsofAfricans,andthatbecamethemainrewardusedbymissionar-thesebeliefspersistastheyarepassedonfromiestolureAfricansintotheChristiansphere,parentstochildren.Putdifferently,theresultsandsomu
