Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5061272 Economics Letters 2010 5 Pages PDF
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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.

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