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Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Copyright Page -- List of Tables and Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. 'Webs of Significance' -- Chapter 2. Des-membering the Past -- Chapter 3. Divided by Common Cosmologies -- Chapter 4. A Discourse of Difference -- Chapter 5. The Process of 'Cruthinitude' -- Chapter 6. An Unclaimed Tradition -- Chapter 7. Ethnic Nationality -- Chapter 8. The 'Fuzzy Frontier' -- Chapter 9. The 'Common Ground' -- Select Bibliography -- Index

This paper examines the role of religious denomination for human capital formation. We employ a unique data set which covers, inter alia, information on numerous measures of school inputs in 169 Swiss districts for the years 1871/72, 1881/82 and 1894/95, marks from pedagogical examinations of conscripts (1875-1903), and results from political referenda to capture conservative or progressive values in addition to the cultural characteristics language and religion. Catholic districts show on average significantly lower educational performance than Protestant districts. However, accounting for other sociocultural characteristics qualifies the role of religion for educational production. The evidence suggests that Catholicism is harmful only in a conservative milieu. We also exploit information on absenteeism of pupils from school to separate provision of schooling from use of schooling.

This paper examines the role of religious denomination for human capital formation. We employ a unique data set which covers, inter alia, information on numerous measures of school inputs in 169 Swiss districts for the years 1871/72, 1881/82 and 1894/95, marks from pedagogical examinations of conscripts (1875-1903), and results from political referenda to capture conservative or progressive values in addition to the cultural characteristics language and religion. Catholic districts show on average significantly lower educational performance than Protestant districts. However, accounting for other sociocultural characteristics qualifies the role of religion for educational production. The evidence suggests that Catholicism is harmful only in a conservative milieu. We also exploit information on absenteeism of pupils from school to separate provision of schooling from use of schooling.

This paper examines the role of religious denomination for human capital formation. We employ a unique data set which covers, inter alia, information on numerous measures of school inputs in 169 Swiss districts for the years 1871/72, 1881/82 and 1894/95, marks from pedagogical examinations of conscripts (1875-1903), and results from political referenda to capture conservative or progressive values in addition to the cultural characteristics language and religion. Catholic districts show on average significantly lower educational performance than Protestant districts. However, accounting for other sociocultural characteristics qualifies the role of religion for educational production. The evidence suggests that Catholicism is harmful only in a conservative milieu. We also exploit information on absenteeism of pupils from school to separate provision of schooling from use of schooling. -- Culture ; educational production ; plural identity ; religious denomination ; school inputs

African transnational diasporas: theoretical perspectives -- Vintages and patterns of migration -- The construction and negotiation of diasporic identities -- "Do you have a visa?": negotiating respectable masculinity in the diaspora -- The diaspora and the politics of development -- Religion in the diaspora -- Transnational religious ties and integration: an unhappy couple?