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JEL Code: J16

Labor and Demographic Economics  →  Demographic Economics  →  Economics of Gender • Non-labor Discrimination

Missionaries and female empowerment in colonial Uganda: new evidence from Protestant marriage registers, 1880-1945

Felix Meier zu Selhausen

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Protestant missionaries have recently been praised for their comparatively benign features concerning female education in Africa. Using a new dataset of 5,212 Protestant brides born between 1880 and 1945 from urban and...
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Keywords

African women agriculture cash-crop production Climate Shocks colonial economy colonial history colonial institutions Colonialism colonial policies colonial state Conflict data development economic history education fiscal capacity fiscal policy GDP German East Africa German Togoland Gold Coast health inequality Institutions labour labour control living standards Malawi marriage patterns Methods missionary schools Missions Mozambique population Protestantism settler settler farming Sources state building Sub-Saharan Africa trade Uganda wage labour welfare ratio West Africa

JEL Codes

E62 F54 H11 H20 I2 I25 I30 I32 J1 J4 J12 J16 J43 N N1 N2 N3 N17 N25 N27 N37 N47 N57 N67 N77 N87 N97 O1 O3 O10 O14 O18 O25 O33 O55 P48 Q1 Q50 R11 R12 R40 Z1 Z10 Z12 Z13
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