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Intelligence, Human Capital, and Economic Growth: A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach

Jones, Garett; Schneider, W. Joel - EconWPA - 2005

abstract concept. We survey the psychological literature on cross-cultural IQ tests, and conclude that modern intelligence …

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Schooling, cognitive ability, and health

Auld, M. Christopher; Sidhu, Nirmal - EconWPA - 2004

A large literature documents a strong correlation between health and educational outcomes. In this paper we investigate the role of cognitive ability in the health–education nexus. Using NLSY data, we show that cognitive ability accounts for roughly one quarter of the association between...

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Schooling, cognitive ability, and health

Auld, M. Christopher; Sidhu, Nirmal - EconWPA - 2004

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IQ in the Ramsey Model: A Naive Calibration

Jones, Garett - EconWPA - 2005

I show that in a conventional Ramsey model, between one-fourth and one- half of income differences across countries can be explained by a single factor: The steady-state effect of large, persistent differences in national average IQ on worker productivity. These differences in cognitive...

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High status for all? Cheating the zero-sum mechanism of happiness.

Galochkin, Igor - EconWPA - 2005

boost happiness of all. 3) Intelligence is a happiness- boosting tool, which should be more developed by low …

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Customer Service--A Need for Survival

Kumar, Deepak; Sinha, Pradip - EconWPA - 2005

Customers are the ones who make or break a firm. It has become of utmost importance for today’s organizations to understand the true value of customers.

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Social memory, social stress, and economic behaviors

Takahashi, Taiki - EconWPA - 2005

game condition. Meanwhile, humans are known to show a social stress response during face-to-face social interactions, which … might affect economic behaviors. Furthermore, it is known that there are individual differences in a social stress response … capacities of social memory. In the present study, we investigated the acute effects of social stress- induced free cortisol (a …

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