@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp3837,
            	author={Becker, Sascha O. and Woessmann, Ludger},
            	title={Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia},
            	year={2008},
	month={Nov},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={3837},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3837},
	abstract={Martin Luther urged each town to have a girls' school so that girls would learn to read the Gospel, evoking a surge of building girls' schools in Protestant areas. Using county- and town-level data from the first Prussian census of 1816, we show 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. Similar results are found for the gender gap in literacy among the adult population in 1871.},
	keywords={Protestantism;education;gender gap},
            }