PROTESTANTISM AND EDUCATION: READING (THE BIBLE) AND OTHER SKILLS
研究了工业化时期新教徒识字率高于天主教徒的原因，发现新教徒阅读圣经的内在动机是重要因素，但教育动机也超出了阅读技能本身。
During industrialization, Protestants were more literate than Catholics. This paper investigates whether this fact may be led back to the intrinsic motivation of Protestants to read the bible and to what extent other education motives might have been involved as well. We employ a historical data set from Switzerland which allows us to differentiate between different cognitive skills: reading, numeracy, essay writing, and Swiss history. We develop an estimation strategy to examine whether the impact of religious denomination was particularly large with respect to reading capabilities. We find support for this hypothesis. However, we also find evidence which is consistent with the view that Protestants' education motives went beyond acquiring reading skills .