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http://hdl.handle.net/1893/515| Appears in Collections: | Economics Working Papers |
| Peer Review Status: | Unrefereed |
| Title: | Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia |
| Author(s): | Becker, Sascha Woessmann, Ludger |
| Contact Email: | sascha.becker@stir.ac.uk |
| Citation: | Becker S & Woessmann L (2008) Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia. Stirling Economics Discussion Paper, 2008-20. |
| Keywords: | gender gap education Protestantism |
| JEL Code(s): | I21: Analysis of Education J16: Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination N33: Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913 Z12: Cultural Economics: Religion |
| Issue Date: | 1-Sep-2008 |
| Date Deposited: | 31-Oct-2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | Stirling Economics Discussion Paper, 2008-20 |
| Abstract: | Martin Luther urged each town to have a girls’ school so that girls would learn to read the Gospel, evoking a surge of building girls’ schools in Protestant areas. Using county- and town-level data from the first Prussian census of 1816, we show that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the exogenous variation in Protestantism due to a county’s or town’s distance to Wittenberg, the birthplace of the Reformation. Similar results are found for the gender gap in literacy among the adult population in 1871. |
| Type: | Working Paper |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1893/515 |
| Affiliation: | Economics University of Munich |
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