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

By Matteo Bobba, Decio Coviello. 2007

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Subfields: Demography, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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On the Distribution of Education and Democracy (2008, background): “7 Bobba and Coviello (2006) also highlight the problem of weak”
Emigration and Democracy (2011, unknown): “Bobba and Coviello (2007) found a positive e§ect of the average years of schooling over the period 1960-2000.”
On the Distribution of Education and Democracy (2006, result): “7 Bobba and Coviello (2006) also highlight the problem of weak instruments and weak identification in the results of Acemoglu et al. (2005) results. e p e to D w th d p a obtain similar results if we check the modernization theory by measuring education with the third quintile in the distribution…”
The democratic transition (2013, methodology): “4 In other recent studies, Bobba and Coviello (2007) as well as Castelló-Climent (2008) reexamined the evidence.”
Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship (2011, background): “Both Bobba and Coviello (2007) and Castello-Climent (2008) estimate much larger and statistically significant effects of educational attainment on democracy using this estimator.”
Democracy, foreign direct investment and natural resources (2011, methodology): “However, Bobba and Coviello (2007) employed the Blundell and Bond system estimator and found that education has a signi cant and positive e¤ect on democracy. bility of the estimates to a Type 1 error i.e., producing signi cant results even though there is no underlying association between the…”
The curse of aid (2008, unknown): “This finding has been challenged by Bobba and Coviello (2007) using the additional orthogonality conditions proposed by Blundell and Bond (1998).”
One dollar, one vote (2011, unknown): “Bobba and Coviello (2007) apply this argument in the democracy and education literature and show the downward bias of the Difference GMM estimator.”
Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability (2020, background): “…to educational studies, political philosophy and developmental economics to emphasize the crucial role of well-designed knowledge and education systems for enabling active citizens and good governance (Biesta, 2016; Bobba & Coviello, 2007; Olssen, Codd, & O'Neill, 2004; Tàbara & Chabay, 2013).”