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Weak Instruments and Weak Identification in Estimating the Effects of Education on Democracy

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Matteo Bobba
Decio Coviello

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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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Paper provided by Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department in its series RES Working Papers with number 4472.

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  1. Alberto Chong & Mark Gradstein, 2008. "¿A quién le hacen falta líderes autoritarios?," RES Working Papers 4564, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department. [Downloadable!]
  2. Campante, Filipe R. & Chor, Davin, 2008. "Schooling and Political Participation in a Neoclassical Framework: Theory and Evidence," Working Paper Series rwp08-043, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government. [Downloadable!]
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