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On the distribution of education and democracy

Amparo Castello-climent

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Sample selectionEconomics and Econometricseducation.field_of_studybusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjectPopulationDistribution (economics)DevelopmentUnobservableDemocracyMicroeconomicsDemocracy political economy education inequality dynamic panel data modelSustainabilityOutlierjel:O10EconometricsEconomicsjel:P16educationbusinessmedia_common

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This paper empirically analyzes the influence of the distribution of education on democracy by controlling for unobservable heterogeneity and by taking into account the persistency of some of the variables. The most novel finding is that increase in the education attained by the majority of the population is what matters for the implementation and sustainability of democracy, rather than the average years of schooling. We show this result is robust to issues pertaining omitted variables, outliers, sample selection, or a narrow definition of the variables used to measure democracy.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2006-06-01Journal of Development Economics
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2007.10.006