Becker, Sascha O. and Wößmann, Ludger
(2010):
The effect of Protestantism on education before the industrialization: Evidence from 1816 Prussia.
In: Economics Letters, Vol. 107, No. 2: pp. 224-228
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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.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
|---|---|
| Faculties: | Economics Economics > Chairs > CESifo-Professorship for Empirical Innovation Economics |
| Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics |
| Language: | English |
| Item ID: | 20254 |
| Date Deposited: | 15. Apr 2014, 08:57 |
| Last Modified: | 04. Nov 2020, 13:01 |
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