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标题：Growth Effects of Education and Social Capital in the OECD Countries
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作者：Jonathan Temple
期刊名称：Economics Department Working Papers / OECD
印刷版ISSN：0259-4633
出版年度：2000
卷号：2000
DOI：10.1787/882344562861
出版社：Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
摘要：This paper surveys the empirical literature on the growth effects of education and social capital. The main focus is on the cross-country evidence for the OECD countries, but the paper also briefly reviews evidence from labour economics, to clarify where empirical work on education using macro data may be relatively useful. It is argued that on balance, the recent cross-country evidence points to productivity benefits of education that are at least as large as those identified by labour economists. The paper also discusses the implications of this finding. Finally, the paper reviews the emerging literature on the benefits of social capital. Since this literature is still in its early days, policy conclusions are accordingly harder to find ...
关键词：social capital; economic growth; human capital