• DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9442.2008.00561.x
Corpus ID: 146303270

Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in Nineteenth-Century Prussia

@article{Becker2008LutherAT,
  title={Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in Nineteenth-Century Prussia},
  author={Sascha O. Becker and L. Woessmann},
  journal={Labor: Human Capital eJournal},
  year={2008}
}

• Sascha O. Becker, L. Woessmann
• Published 2008
• Economics, Sociology
• Labor: Human Capital eJournal

Martin Luther urged each town to have a girls’ school so that girls would learn to read the Gospel, thereby 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… Expand

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