Protestant economic history of Becker and Woessmann (2009), where Protestantism first led to better education, which in turn …This paper uses recently discovered data on nearly 300 Prussian counties in 1816 to show that Protestantism led to more … explanation, where a Protestant work ethic first led to industrialization which then increased the demand for education. …

that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the … exogenous variation in Protestantism due to a county's or town's distance to Wittenberg, the birthplace of the Reformation …

that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the … exogenous variation in Protestantism due to a county’s or town’s distance to Wittenberg, the birthplace of the Reformation …

that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the … exogenous variation in Protestantism due to a county's or town's distance to Wittenberg, the birthplace of the Reformation …

Protestant economic history of Becker and Woessmann (2009), where Protestantism first led to better education, which in turn …. -- education ; Protestantism ; pre-industrialization …This paper uses recently discovered data on nearly 300 Prussian counties in 1816 to show that Protestantism led to more …

that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the … exogenous variation in Protestantism due to a county's or town's distance to Wittenberg, the birthplace of the Reformation …

Protestant economic history of Becker and Woessmann (2009), where Protestantism first led to better education, which in turn …This paper uses recently discovered data on nearly 300 Prussian counties in 1816 to show that Protestantism led to more … explanation, where a Protestant work ethic first led to industrialization which then increased the demand for education …

that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the … exogenous variation in Protestantism due to a county's or town's distance to Wittenberg, the birthplace of the Reformation …

Protestant economic history of Becker and Woessmann (2009), where Protestantism first led to better education, which in turn …This paper uses recently discovered data on nearly 300 Prussian counties in 1816 to show that Protestantism led to more … explanation, where a Protestant work ethic first led to industrialization which then increased the demand for education. …

We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is …-century Prussia we reject Weber's suggestion that Protestantism mattered due to an "ascetic compulsion to save". Moreover, we find that …