Weak Instruments and Weak Identification in Estimating the Effects of Education on Democracy

Matteo Bobba and Decio Coviello ()

No 4472, Research Department Publications from Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department

Abstract: Is there any relation between education and democracy? Once we correct for weak instruments and identify education as `weakly exogenous` we find new evidence that education systematically predicts democracy. Our results are robust across model specification, instrumentation strategies, and samples.

Date: 2006-05
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