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| Author: | Becker, S.O. Woessmann, L. |
| Title: | Luther and the girls: religious denomination and the female education gap in nineteenth-century Prussia |
| Journal: | Scandinavian Journal of Economics
2008 : VOL. 110:4, p. 777-805 |
| Index terms: | Christianity education equality gender religion |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | It was urged by Martin Luther that each town should have a girls' school in order to teach the girls how to read the Gospel, thereby evoking a surge of building girls' schools in Protestant areas. Country- and town-level data from the first Prussian census of 1816 is used to show that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. |
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