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

Inter-American Development Bank Working Paper No. 569

10 Pages Posted: 5 Sep 2006

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Matteo Bobba

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Research Department

Decio Coviello

HEC Montreal

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Date Written: May 2006

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Democracy, Education, Weak Instruments, Dynamic Panel

JEL Classification: P16, O16

Suggested Citation

Bobba, Matteo and Coviello, Decio, Weak Instruments and Weak Identification in Estimating the Effects of Education on Democracy (May 2006). Inter-American Development Bank Working Paper No. 569, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=928327 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.928327

Matteo Bobba

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Decio Coviello (Contact Author)

HEC Montreal ( email )

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