Theories on the Relationships among Education, Growth, and Democracy

The aim of this paper is to analyse how the economic literature has examined the relationships arising among education, democracy, and growth. First, we present a brief survey of the three strands of research which have analysed in a separated way, the relationship between education and growth, democracy and growth, and education and democracy. Second, we present a sketch of the model by Bourguignon and Verdier (2000), as an example of a promising field of research which aims to study in a simultaneous way, the relationship among education, growth, and democracy.