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depends on the relative award the market assigns to intelligence versus other individual merits, which will also influence … equilibrium in the labour market implies that the reward to entrepreneurs depends more on social assets than on intelligence. This …
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prominently, commanding 30% of current defense R&D spending, versus just about 13% for intelligence and anti-terrorism. The second … security. Intelligence emerges as the key aspect of the war against terrorism and, accordingly, R&D aimed at providing advanced … technological means for intelligence is viewed as the cornerstone of defense R&D. This entails developing computerized sensory …
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While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children’s outcomes such as education and earnings, the evidence on the effects of birth order on IQ is decidedly mixed. This paper uses a large dataset on the population of Norway that allows us to precisely measure birth...
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sufficient intelligence by people with limited intelligence may dominate government regulation. …
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How do families influence the ability of children? Cognitive skills have been shown to be a strong predictor of educational attainment and future labor market success; as a result, understanding the determinants of cognitive skills can lead to a better understanding of children’s long run...
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these biases. The experiments yield three further findings: (iii) network cognition is affected by the subject's location …, (iv) the accuracy of network cognition varies with the nature of the network, and (v) limitations in network cognition …
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In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
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We construct a model of revolution and transition to democracy under an individualistic and a collectivist culture. The … culture are more likely to end up adopting democracy faster than countries with a collectivist culture. Our instrumental … variable estimation suggests a strong and robust effect of individualistic culture on average polity scores and length of …
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This paper makes three contributions to the growing literature on culture and economics. Using answers to the World … cultural distance; (iii) trade openness has a lock-in effect on culture. Third, we test the model using an instrumental …
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We study how the prevailing internal organization of the family affected the initial design of pension systems. Our theoretical framework predicts that, in society with weak family ties, pensions systems were introduced to act as a safety net, while in societies with strong ties they replicate...
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