's global share of GDP means that liberal Asian nations will be poised to take up the role of promoting liberal democracy …

Scholars have long speculated about education's political impacts, variously arguing that it promotes modern or pro …. Reverse causality may help account for the view that education instills greater acceptance of authority …

Across countries, education and democracy are highly correlated. We motivate empirically and then model a causal … civic participation, including voting and organizing. In the battle between democracy and dictatorship, democracy has a wide … base. As education raises the benefits of civic participation, it raises the support for more democratic regimes relative …

on preschool blood lead levels (BLLs) matched to education data for all students in North Carolina public schools. We …

The current high rates of return to human capital stimulate a supply response via increased investments in education … differential in wages. This paper reports estimates of: the responses of investments in post-secondary education, measured by …

, and the relative pay of teachers -- on the rate of return to education for men born between 1920 and 1949. Using earnings … education in the region where they currently reside, and other factors. A decrease in the pupil-teacher ratio from 30 to 25, for … example, is associated with a 0.4 percentage point increase in the rate of return to education. The estimated relationship …

parliamentary democracies (Europe) and presidential-congressional systems (USA) to show that increasing tax competition is likely to …

1992) are added to compare attitudes towards democracy. Two comparisons are made: between countries, and through time, to …