@techreport{NBERw11204,
 title = "From Education to Democracy?",
 author = "Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson and Pierre Yared",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "11204",
 year = "2005",
 month = "March",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w11204",
 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.},
}