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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
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion
D History General and Old World > DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics
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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December 2008Published
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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