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Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia

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Becker, Sascha O.
Woessmann, Ludger

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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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Paper provided by University of Stirling, Department of Economics in its series Stirling Economics Discussion Papers with number 2008-20.

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Keywords: gender gap; education; Protestantism;

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