"From Education to Democracy?"
©
American Economic Review,
2005
Volume: 95
|
Issue: 2
|
Pages: 44-49
Publication type: Journal article
Research Archive Topic: Business Economics and Public Policy, Capital Markets and Investments
Abstract
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.
Each author name for a Columbia Business School faculty member is linked to a faculty research page, which lists additional publications by that faculty member.
Each topic is linked to an index of publications on that topic.