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Prussia Disaggregated: The Demography of its Universe of Localities in 1871
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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 13193
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Analysis of Education
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913
Cultural Economics: Religion
- Subject
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religion
segregation
literacy
fertility
Prussia
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Becker, Sascha O.
Cinnirella, Francesco
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2020
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Becker, Sascha O.
- Cinnirella, Francesco
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2020
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