The effect of Protestantism on education before the industrialization: Evidence from 1816 Prussia |
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| Authors: | Sascha O. Becker Ludger Woessmann |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC, United States;2. Department of Economics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel;1. IRES, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium & CEPR, London, UK;2. Department of Economic History & Center for Economic Demography, Lund University, Sweden;1. Ifo Institute, Poschingerstr. 5, Munich, Germany;2. Faculty of Law, Business and Economics, University of Bayreuth, Universitaetsstr. 30, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany;3. CESifo, Munich, Germany;4. CEPR, London, UK;5. CAGE, Warwick, UK;6. Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Marstallplatz 1, 80539 Munich, Germany;1. Ifo, CESifo, CEPR and CAGE. Ifo Institute, Poschingerstr. 5, Munich 81679, Germany;2. Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Poschingerstr. 5, Munich 81679, Germany |
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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. |
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