From Education to Democracy?
发现，传统观点认为教育水平高是民主的前提，但这一结论仅基于跨国截面数据，一旦考察国家内部变化，教育与民主之间并无显著关联。
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 crosssectional 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.