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.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 2414
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913
Cultural Economics: Religion
- Thema
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Gender gap
education
protestantism
Frauenbildung
Protestantismus
Geschlechterdiskriminierung
Bildungschancen
Preußen
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Becker, Sascha O.
Woessmann, Ludger
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2008
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:25 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Becker, Sascha O.
- Woessmann, Ludger
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2008
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