From Education to Democracy?
Working Paper 11204
DOI 10.3386/w11204
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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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Copy CitationDaron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson, and Pierre Yared, "From Education to Democracy?," NBER Working Paper 11204 (2005), https://doi.org/10.3386/w11204.
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Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson and Pierre Yared. "From Education To Democracy?," American Economic Review, 2005, v95(2,May), 44-49. citation courtesy of