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Social capital and human capital

Social capital is considered one of the main factors for the accumulation of human capital. This section deals with the relationship between social capital and human capital, with a particular focus on the role of social capital in education. This page is under construction: comments and sugestions are welcome

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Essential Readings

• Becker, G. (1975), Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Education, New York, Columbia University Press.

• Bénabou, R. (1993), Workings of a City: Location, Education, and Production, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 108, (1993), 619-652.

• Bénabou, R. (1996), Equity and Efficiency in Human Capital Investment: The Local Connection, Review of Economic Studies, 62, (1996), 237-264.

• Coleman, J. (1988), Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital, American Journal of Sociology 94, pp. 95-120.

• Hanifan, L.J. (1916), The Rural School Community Centre, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, 67, 130-38.

• Morgan, S., Sorensen, A.B. (1999), Parental Networks, Social Closure, and Mathematics Learning: A Test of Coleman’s Social Capital Explanation of School Effects, American Sociological Review 64(5): 661-681.

• Morgan, S.L. and Sorensen, A.B. (1999), Theory, Measurement, and Specification Issues in Models of Network Effects on Learning, American Sociological Review 64:649-700.

• Morgan, S.L. (2000), Social Capital, Capital Goods, and the Production of Learning, Journal of Socio-Economics, 29:591-5.

• Teachman, J., Paasch, K., Carver, K. (1997), Social Capital and the Generation of Human Capital, Social Forces, Vol. 75, No. 4, 1-17.

• Temple, Jonathan (1998), Initial Conditions, Social Capital, and Growth in Africa, Journal of African Economies, forthcoming 7(3).

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Further Readings

• Bjørnskov, C. (2004), Social Trust and the Growth of Schooling, Paper presented at the CRISS First Annual Young Economists Workshop, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Faculty of Economics, 31 May, 1 June.

• Bosma, N., Van Praag, M., Thurik, R, deWit, G. (2002), The value of human and social capital investments for the business performance of start-ups, No 02-027/3 in Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers.

• Bostrom, A.K. (2003), Lifelong Learning, Intergenerational Learning, and Social Capital. From Theory To Practice, Institute of International Education, Stockholm University.

• Bukh, P.N., Larsen, H.T., Mouritsen, J. (2000), Constructing intellectual capital statements, Scandinavian Journal of Management, No. 17, 97-108.

• Buchel, F., Duncan, G. (1998), Do Parents' Social Activities Promote Children's School Attainments? Evidence from the German Socioeconomic Panel, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Vol. 60, 95-108.

• Cabrales, A., Calvo-Armengol, A., Pavoni, N. (2005), Social Preferences, Skill Segregation, and Wage Dynamics, Departament d’Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, mimeo.

• Calvo-Armengol, A., Jackson, M.O. (2005), Like father, like son: Social networks, human capital investment, and social mobility, Social Science Working Paper 1242, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.

• Dakhli, M., De Clercq, D. (2003), Human capital, social capital, and innovation: a multi-country study, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School Working Paper Series 2003-18.

• Falk, I. (2001), Sleight of Hand: Job myths, literacy and social capital, Center For Research and Learning, Australia.

• Field, J. (2003), Civic engagement and lifelong learning: Survey findings on social capital and attitudes towards learning, Studies in the Education of Adults, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 142-156(15).

• Field, J., Spence, L. (2000), Informal Learning and Social Capital, in Frank Coffield (ed.), The Importance of Informal Learning, 22–32. Bristol: Polity Press.

• Francesconi, F., Jenkins, S.P., Siedler, T. (2005), Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany, IZA Discussion Paper No. 1837, Institute for the Study of Labor.

• Frank, K.A., Zhao, Y., Borman, K. (2004), Social Capital and the Diffusion of Innovations within Organizations: Application to the Implementation of Computer Technology in Schools, Sociology of Education, April 2004.

• Glick, J., White, M. (2000), Generation Status, Social Capital and the Routes out of High School, Sociological Forum, 15 (2000), 671-691.

• Healy, T. (2001), The Human Capital Approach and the OECD: How Clear is the International Agenda and where is it going?, Queen’s International Institute on Social Policy, Department of Education and Science.

• Heliwell, J. (2001), The Contribution of Human and Social Capital to Sustained Economic Growth, in The Contribution of Human and Social Capital to Sustained Economic Growth and Well-Being, International Symposium Report edited by the OECD and HRDC.

• Hoyt Bleakley & Aimee Chin, 2008. "Age at Arrival, English Proficiency, and Social Assimilation Among U.S. Immigrants," CReAM Discussion Paper Series 0913 JEL Codes: J24, J12,, Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London.

• Huang, F. (2003), Social Capital, Cooperation, and Human Capital, University of Pensilvanya, Department of Economics.

• Israel, G., Beaulieu, L. (1995), Influence of Social Capital on Public High School Dropouts: Re-examining the Rural-Urban Context, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Washington, D.C.

• Jensen, B., Seltzer, A. (2000), Neighbourhood and Family Effects in Educational Progress, The Australian Economic Review, March 2000, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 17-31(15).

• Kaufman, G., White, M. (1997), Language Usage, Social Capital, and School Completion among Immigrants and Native-Born Ethnic Groups, Social Science Quarterly, 78(June 1997), 385-398.

• Kilpatrick, S. (2003), The Role of VET in Building Social Capital for Rural Community Development in Australia, Discussion Paper D4/2003, University of Tasmania.

• Leipziger, D., Kharas, H., Horn, R., Gupta, V. (1997), An Institutional Approach to the Promotion of Education Service in Brazil, Development Economics, 1997.

• Lundvall, B.A. (2005), Interactive learning, social capital and economic performance, Paper presented at the Conference Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy,
Washington January 10-11, 2005, organized by EC, OECD and NSF-US.

• McMahon, W. (2001), The Impact of Human Capital on Non-Market Outcomes and Feedbacks on Economic Development, in The Contribution of Human and Social Capital to Sustained Economic Growth and Well-Being, International Symposium Report edited by the OECD and HRDC.

• Moe, E. (2001), An International Policy Perspective on Investment in Human and Social Capital, in The Contribution of Human and Social Capital to Sustained Economic Growth and Well-Being, International Symposium Report edited by the OECD and HRDC.

• Morgan, S.L. (1996), Trends in Black-White Differences in Educational Expectations, 1980-1992, Sociology of Education, 69:308-319.

• Munasib, A. (2004), Lifecycle of Social Networks: Relationship between Human Capital and Social Capital, and the Importance of City Size, Ohio State University, Department of Economics, Job Market Paper.

• Munn, P. (2000), Social Capital, School and Exclusion, in Baron, S. (ed), Social Capital: Critical Perspectives, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

• Piazza-Georgi, B. (2002), Human and social capital in Soweto in 1999: report on a field study, Development Southern Africa, Vol. 19, No. 5, 615-639.

• Piazza-Georgi, B. (2002), The Role of Human and Social Capital in Growth: Extending Our Understanding, Cambridge Journal of Economics 2002, 461-479.

• Portes, A., MacLeod, D. (1998), Educating the Second Generation: Determinants of Achievement among Children of Immigrants, Princeton University, Department of Sociology.

• Sandefur, G., Meier, A., Hernandez, P. (1999), Families, Social Capital and Educational Continuation, CDE Working Paper No. 99-19, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin.

• Schuller, T. (2000), Social and Human Capital: The Search for Appropriate Technomethodology, Policy Studies 21(1): 25–35.

• Schuller, T. (2001), The Complementary Roles of Human and Social Capital, in The Contribution of Human and Social Capital to Sustained Economic Growth and Well-Being, International Symposium Report edited by the OECD and HRDC.

• Valenzuela, A., Dornbusch, S. (1994), Familism and Social Capital in the Academic Achievement of Mexican Origin and Anglo Adolescents, Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 75, No.1, 18-36.

• Wolfe, B., Haveman, R. (2001), Accounting for the Social and Non-Market Benefits of Education, in The Contribution of Human and Social Capital to Sustained Economic Growth and Well-Being, International Symposium Report edited by the OECD and HRDC.

• Zippay, A. (2000), The Role of Social Capital in Reclaiming Human Capital: A Longitudinal Study of Occupational Mobility among Displaced Steelworkers, The Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare December 2000, Vol. XXVIII, No. 4.

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