The Effect of Protestantism on Education Before the Industrialization: Evidence from 1816 Prussia

By Sascha O. Becker, Ludger Woessmann. Social Science Research Network, 2010

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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.

Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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DIFFUSING KNOWLEDGE WHILE SPREADING GOD'S MESSAGE: PROTESTANTISM AND ECONOMIC PROSPERITY IN CHINA, 1840–1920 (2015, background): “…the overall urbanization 2000), a country’s openness (La Porta et al. 1998), “spiritual capital” (e.g., Barro and McCleary 2003; Barro 2004), social networks (e.g., Glaeser and Sacerdote 2008), and human capital (e.g., Becker and Woessmann 2009, 2010; Gallego and Woodberry 2010; Woodberry 2012).”
Globalization and gender equality in the course of development (2012, background): “Protestantism, for example, had a decidedly positive influence on gender equality in education (Becker and Woessmann 2009, 2010, Norton and Tomal 2009, Cooray and Potrafke 2011).”
Landownership Concentration and the Expansion of Education (2016, background): “Already in 1816, about 60 percent of children aged 6 to 14 were enrolled in primary schools (see also Becker and Woessmann, 2010).”