Editing Reformation (section)

==== Human capital formation ====
Claims include:
* Higher literacy rates,<ref name= "Becker 531–596">{{Cite journal|last1= Becker|first1=Sascha O.|last2= Woessmann |first2=Ludger|date=1 May 2009|title=Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History|journal=The Quarterly Journal of Economics |volume=124|issue=2 |pages= 531–96|doi=10.1162/qjec.2009.124.2.531|issn=0033-5533|citeseerx= 10.1.1.657.9590|hdl= 1893/1653|s2cid= 3113486}}</ref>{{refn|group=note| Some historians restrict this to the Mercantile countries (Holland, England)<ref name=allen>1800s Germany had the literacy rate as neighbouring France.{{cite journal |last1=Allen |first1=Robert C. |title=Progress and Poverty in Early Modern Europe |journal=The Economic History Review |date=2003 |volume=56 |issue=3 |pages=403–443 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-0289.2003.00257.x |jstor=3698570 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3698570 |issn=0013-0117}}</ref> or the influence of the [[Age of Enlightenment]].<ref >{{Cite book|last=Vincent |first=David |editor-first1=John L. |editor-first2=Eileen H. |editor-last1=Rury |editor-last2=Tamura |title=The Oxford Handbook of the History of Education |year=2019 |chapter=The Modern History of Literacy |chapter-url=https://oro.open.ac.uk/69072/3/69072.pdf |access-date=December 21, 2023 |at=7 |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199340033.013.30 |isbn=978-0-199-34003-3 }}</ref> }} 
* Lower gender gap in school enrollment and literacy rates.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Becker|first1=Sascha O.|last2= Woessmann |first2=Ludger|date=1 December 2008|title=Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in Nineteenth-century Prussia |journal= Scandinavian Journal of Economics |volume=110|issue=4 |pages= 777–805|doi=10.1111/j.1467-9442.2008.00561.x|s2cid= 146303270 |issn=1467-9442}}</ref>
* Higher primary school enrollment.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1 = Becker|first1=Sascha O.|last2= Woessmann |first2=Ludger|date=1 May 2010 |title=The effect of Protestantism on education before the industrialization: Evidence from 1816 Prussia|journal=Economics Letters|volume=107|issue=2|pages=224–28|doi= 10.1016/j.econlet.2010.01.031|citeseerx=10.1.1.517.2101|s2cid= 154922179}}</ref>
* Higher public spending on schooling and better educational performance of military conscripts.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Boppart|first1=Timo|last2= Falkinger|first2=Josef |last3= Grossmann |first3=Volker|last4=Woitek|first4=Ulrich|last5=Wüthrich|first5= Gabriela|date=1 April 2013|title=Under which conditions does religion affect educational outcomes?|journal= Explorations in Economic History|volume=50|issue=2|pages=242–66|doi= 10.1016/j.eeh.2012.12.001|s2cid= 154150626 |url= https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/77611/1/Under_which_Conditions_Boppart.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/77611/1/Under_which_Conditions_Boppart.pdf |archive-date= 2022-10-09 |url-status= live}}</ref>
* Higher capability in reading, numeracy, essay writing, and history.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1= Boppart|first1=Timo|last2=Falkinger|first2=Josef|last3=Grossmann|first3= Volker|date=1 April 2014|title= Protestantism and Education: Reading (the Bible) and Other Skills|journal= Economic Inquiry |volume=52|issue=2|pages=874–95|doi= 10.1111/ecin.12058 |s2cid=10220106|issn=1465-7295|url=https://www.cesifo-group.de/DocDL/cesifo1_wp3314.pdf |archive-url= https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.cesifo-group.de/DocDL/cesifo1_wp3314.pdf |archive-date= 2022-10-09 |url-status= live}}</ref>