TY  - JOUR
AU  - Acemoglu,Daron
AU  - Johnson,Simon
AU  - Robinson,James A.
AU  - Yared,Pierre
TI  - From Education to Democracy?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 11204
PY  - 2005
Y2  - March 2005
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11204
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11204.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Daron Acemoglu
Department of Economics
MIT, E52-380B
50 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA  02142-1347
Tel: 617/253-1927
Fax: 617/253-1330
E-Mail: daron@mit.edu

Simon Johnson
MIT Sloan School of Management
100 Main Street, E52-562
Cambridge, MA 02142
Tel: 617/290-9618
Fax: 617/253-2660
E-Mail: sjohnson@mit.edu

James A. Robinson
Harvard University
Department of Government
N309, 1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA  02138
Tel: 617/496-2839
Fax: 617/495-0438
E-Mail: jrobinson@gov.harvard.edu

Pierre Yared
Columbia University
Graduate School of Business
3022 Broadway, Uris Hall 823
New York, NY 10027
Tel: 212/854-9670
Fax: 212/662-8474
E-Mail: pyared@columbia.edu
AB  - 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.
ER  -