Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/216505 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13193
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We provide, for the first time, a detailed and comprehensive overview of the demography of more than 50,000 towns, villages, and manors in 1871 Prussia. We study religion, literacy, fertility, and group segregation by location type (town, village, and manor). We find that Jews live predominantly in towns. Villages and manors are substantially segregated by denomination, whereas towns are less segregated. Yet, we find relatively lower levels of segregation by literacy. Regression analyses with county-fixed effects show that a larger share of Protestants is associated with higher literacy rates across all location types. A larger share of Jews relative to Catholics is not significantly associated with higher literacy in towns, but it is in villages and manors. Finally, a larger share of Jews is associated with lower fertility in towns, which is not explained by differences in literacy.
Subjects: 
religion
segregation
literacy
fertility
Prussia
JEL: 
J13
J15
I21
N33
Z12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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