From Education to Democracy?

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James Robinson and Pierre Yared

No 11204, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: The conventional wisdom views high levels of education as a prerequisite for democracy. This paper shows that existing evidence for this view is based on cross-sectional correlations, which disappear once we look at within-country variation. In other words, there is no evidence that countries that increase their education are more likely to become democratic.

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Date: 2005-03
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Published as Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson and Pierre Yared. "From Education To Democracy?," American Economic Review, 2005, v95(2,May), 44-49.

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