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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. ISSN 0347-0520
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Official URL: http://dx.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.
| 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 |
| Date: | December 2008 |
| Volume: | Vol.110 |
| Number: | No.4 |
| Number of Pages: | 29 |
| Page Range: | pp. 777-805 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2008.00561.x |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/45508 |
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