@techreport{Becker2008Luther,
abstract = {Martin 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.},
address = {M\"{u}nchen},
author = {Sascha O. Becker and Ludger Woessmann},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {I21; J16; N33; Z12; 330; Gender gap; education; protestantism population in 1871; Frauenbildung; Protestantismus; Geschlechterdiskriminierung; Bildungschancen; Preu\ss{}en},
language = {eng},
number = {2414},
publisher = {CESifo},
title = {Luther and the girls: religious denomination and the female education gap in 19th century Prussia},
type = {CESifo working paper},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/26459},
year = {2008}
}
