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

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Research Department Publications.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 4472
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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