Weak instruments and weak identification in estimating the effects of education on democracy

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.

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Year of publication:	2006-05
Authors:	Bobba, Matteo ; Coviello, Decio
Institutions:	Inter-American Development Bank
Subject:	Education \| Democracy \| educación \| democracia

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	IDB Publications (Working Papers).
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series Research Department Working Papers ; 569 Number 6698
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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