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dc.contributor.authorBecker, Saschaen_UK
dc.contributor.authorWoessmann, Ludgeren_UK
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-22T02:22:48Z-
dc.date.available2017-06-22T02:22:48Z-
dc.date.issued2008-09-01en_UK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/515-
dc.description.abstractMartin 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.en_UK
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.relationBecker 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.en_UK
dc.relation.ispartofseriesStirling Economics Discussion Paper, 2008-20en_UK
dc.subjectgender gapen_UK
dc.subjecteducationen_UK
dc.subjectProtestantismen_UK
dc.titleLuther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussiaen_UK
dc.typeWorking Paperen_UK
dc.citation.publicationstatusUnpublisheden_UK
dc.citation.peerreviewedUnrefereeden_UK
dc.type.statusAM - Accepted Manuscripten_UK
dc.author.emailsascha.becker@stir.ac.uken_UK
dc.citation.date01/09/2008en_UK
dc.subject.jelI21: Analysis of Educationen_UK
dc.subject.jelJ16: Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discriminationen_UK
dc.subject.jelN33: Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913en_UK
dc.subject.jelZ12: Cultural Economics: Religionen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationEconomicsen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Munichen_UK
dc.identifier.wtid839976en_UK
dcterms.dateAccepted2008-09-01en_UK
dc.date.filedepositdate2008-10-31en_UK
rioxxterms.typeWorking paperen_UK
rioxxterms.versionAMen_UK
local.rioxx.authorBecker, Sascha|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorWoessmann, Ludger|en_UK
local.rioxx.projectInternal Project|University of Stirling|https://isni.org/isni/0000000122484331en_UK
local.rioxx.freetoreaddate2008-10-31en_UK
local.rioxx.licencehttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved|2008-10-31|en_UK
local.rioxx.filenameSEDP-2008-20-Becker-Woessmann.pdfen_UK
local.rioxx.filecount1en_UK
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