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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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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 …
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Building on evidence from neurobiology and neuroscience, we model the physiological limitations faced by individuals in the process of decision-making that starts with sensory perception and ends in action selection. The brain sets a neuronal threshold, observes whether the neuronal cell firing...
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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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second part we offer a further argument for a potential detrimental effect of immigration: if wages are negotiated at the … native insiders and their employers. The results show no negative impact of foreign labour on young natives' earnings levels … either in a regional or sectoral respect and at the firm level. The results for earnings growth in the period 1988--91 are …
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Standard estimates of earnings profiles ignore the fact that, with unobserved heterogeneity, cross-section evidence … need not reflect the `true' relationship between earnings and tenure. In this paper we argue that the observation of the … earnings growth. We apply this simple idea to Japanese and UK data. We find that tenure effects on earnings are positive but …
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is related to the measure of risk emphasized by the theory. We first discriminate amongst various models of earnings …-specific differences in the stochastic process for earnings and for measurement error. The conditional variance of the income shocks is …
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