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| Title: | | Luther and the girls: religious denomination and the female education gap in 19th century Prussia  |
| Authors: | | Becker, Sascha O. Wößmann, Ludger |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA discussion papers 3837 |
| 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 population in 1871. |
| Subjects: | | Gender gap education Protestantism |
| JEL: | | I21 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20081127666 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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