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Luther and the girls : religious denomination and the female education gap in nineteenth-century Prussia
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Becker, Sascha O. and Woessmann, Ludger (2008) Luther and the girls : religious denomination and the female education gap in nineteenth-century Prussia. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol.110 (No.4). pp. 777-805. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9442.2008.00561.x
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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.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion D History General and Old World > DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Scandinavian Journal of Economics | ||||
| Publisher: | Blackwell | ||||
| ISSN: | 0347-0520 | ||||
| Official Date: | December 2008 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.110 | ||||
| Number: | No.4 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 29 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 777-805 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2008.00561.x | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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