Arbeitspapier
Luther and the girls: religious denomination and the female education gap in 19th century Prussia
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.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 3837
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
- Subject
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Gender gap
education
Protestantism
Frauenbildung
Protestantismus
Geschlechterdiskriminierung
Bildungschancen
Preußen
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Becker, Sascha O.
Wößmann, Ludger
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2008
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-20081127666
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Becker, Sascha O.
- Wößmann, Ludger
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2008
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