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dc.contributor.author | Becker, Sascha O. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Woessmann, Ludger | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-10-22 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-07-28T08:32:08Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-07-28T08:32:08Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/26459 | - |
dc.description.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. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aCenter for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo) |cMunich | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aCESifo Working Paper |x2414 | en |
dc.subject.jel | I21 | en |
dc.subject.jel | J16 | en |
dc.subject.jel | N33 | en |
dc.subject.jel | Z12 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Gender gap | en |
dc.subject.keyword | education | en |
dc.subject.keyword | protestantism | en |
dc.subject.stw | Frauenbildung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Protestantismus | en |
dc.subject.stw | Geschlechterdiskriminierung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Bildungschancen | en |
dc.subject.stw | Preußen | en |
dc.title | Luther and the girls: religious denomination and the female education gap in 19th century Prussia | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 583119913 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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