The effect of Protestantism on education before the industrialization: Evidence from 1816 Prussia

Sascha Becker and Ludger Wößmann
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Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

Abstract: Across Prussian counties and towns, Protestantism led to more schooling already in 1816, before the Industrial Revolution. This supports a human capital theory of Protestant economic history and rules out a Weberian explanation of Protestant education just resulting from industrialization.

Date: 2010
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Published in Economics Letters 2 107(2010): pp. 224-228

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