@techreport{NBERw11204, title = "From Education to Democracy?", author = "Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson and Pierre Yared", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "11204", year = "2005", month = "March", doi = {10.3386/w11204}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w11204", 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.}, }