From its beginning 500 years ago, Protestantism has been advocating and actively pursuing the expansion of schooling, including the schooling of girls. In many countries, it has thus helped to create a cultural heritage that puts a high value on education and schooling. This paper provides evidence that Protestantism’s historical legacy has an enduring effect. Using data on 147 countries, it finds that countries with larger Protestant population shares in 1900 had higher secondary school enrollment rates over 1975-2010, including among girls. The magnitude of the effect is small though. Using Protestant population shares over 1975-2010, the paper also shows that Protestantism’s influence on schooling has diminished and that contemporary Protestantism, in contrast to historical Protestantism, does not affect schooling. The regression analysis accounts for numerous other determinants of schooling.

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仍然有影响力：新教强调学校教育

新教从 500 年前开始，就一直倡导并积极追求扩大学校教育，包括女童入学。在许多国家，它因此帮助创造了高度重视教育和学校教育的文化遗产。本文提供了证据，证明新教的历史遗产具有持久的影响。使用 147 个国家的数据，它发现 1900 年新教人口份额较大的国家在 1975-2010 年期间的中学入学率较高，包括女孩。不过影响的幅度很小。使用 1975-2010 年的新教人口份额，该论文还表明，新教对学校教育的影响已经减弱，与历史新教相比，当代新教不影响学校教育。