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...

This paper explores the role of "social capability" in growth and development. We present a wide variety of evidence to show that rates of growth, in per capita income and TFP, are strongly related to the extent of a country's initial social development. We also show that differences in social...