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| Title: | Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in Nineteenth-century Prussia |
| Author(s): | Becker, Sascha Woessmann, Ludger |
| Contact Email: | sascha.becker@stir.ac.uk |
| Keywords: | Gender gap education Protestantism JEL classification: I21 J16 N33 Z12 Prussia (Germany) Economic conditions 19th century Protestantism Church and education Prussia (Germany) |
| Issue Date: | Dec-2008 |
| Date Deposited: | 12-Oct-2009 |
| Citation: | Becker S & Woessmann L (2008) Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in Nineteenth-century Prussia. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 110 (4), pp. 777-805. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9442.2008.00561.x |
| Abstract: | Martin Luther urged each town to have a girls’ school so that girls would learn to read the Gospel, thereby 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. |
| DOI Link: | 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2008.00561.x |
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