Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/30429 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2910
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper uses recently discovered data on nearly 300 Prussian counties in 1816 to show that Protestantism led to more schools and higher school enrolment already before the industrialization. This evidence supports the human capital theory of Protestant economic history of Becker and Woessmann (2009), where Protestantism first led to better education, which in turn facilitated industrial development. It rules out that the existing end-of-19th-century evidence can be explained by a Weberian explanation, where a Protestant work ethic first led to industrialization which then increased the demand for education.
Subjects: 
education
Protestantism
pre-industrialization
JEL: 
I21
N33
Z12
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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