Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2007 - This version: January 22, 2007
Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an … crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from late 19th-century Prussia reveal that Protestantism was indeed … associated not only with higher economic prosperity, but also with better education. We find that Protestants’ higher literacy …