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Do Nations Combine O-Rings with Cobb-Douglas? Evidence from agriculture, equipment production, and the informal sector

Oasis, Kodila-Tedika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The article focuses on the conditional relationship between various human capital proxies and the size of potential “O-Ring” or “Cobb-Douglas” sectors. We find that that years of schooling are a robust negative predictor of the size of the informal sector, conditioned on national average...

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Results Intelligence: The Ability of Results-Focused Self-Management

Klein, Diti - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

What Is Results Intelligence and Why Does It Have the Most Influence on Success? The research of human intelligence …, including thefollowing questions: What is the nature of intelligence? Is it a constant innate cognitive traitor is it a skill … that can be improved? Is intelligence a single uniform entity or is it amultiplicity of independent abilities? What is the …

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Cognitive ability and learning to play equilibrium: A level-k analysis

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In this paper we investigate how cognitive ability influences behavior, success and the evolution of play towards Nash equilibrium in repeated strategic interactions. We study behavior in a p-beauty contest experiment and find striking differences according to cognitive ability: more cognitively...

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A Theory of Intelligence and Total Factor Productivity: Value Added Reflects the Fruits of Fluid Intelligence

Harashima, Taiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In this paper, a theory of total factor productivity (TFP) that incorporates a model of intelligence is formulated and … described. In particular, the fluid intelligence of ordinary workers is emphasized as an important element in TFP because such … workers have the intelligence to innovate, even though their innovations are minor. Nevertheless, these innovations are …

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Forget your gods: African evidence on the relation between state capacity and cognitive ability of leading politicians

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper uses a unique dataset to investigate the effect of the cognitive ability of leading politicians on state capacity. Given the evidence that cognitive ability of leading politicians’ affects state capacity positively, except Africa. For the continent, this relationship between state...

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The Importance of Cognitive Abilities at Primary School for Educational and Occupational Success in the Life Course of a Dutch Generation, born around 1940.

Dronkers, J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

This paper gives empirical evidence of the role of cognitive ability in social stratification by analyzing a Dutch longitudinal data set (the so-called Noord-Brabant cohort), as a contribution to the debates around The Bell Curve. Differences in early cognitive ability influence educational...

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Does Intelligence Affect Economic Diversification ?

Oasis, Kodila-Tedika; Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper extends the growing literature on knowledge economy by investigating the effect of intelligence on economic …

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Cognitive capital, governance, and the wealth of nations

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Rindermann, Heiner; Christainsen, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Good governance or “government effectiveness” (per the World Bank) is seen as a critical factor for the wealth of nations insofar as it shapes political and economic institutions and affects overall economic performance. The quality of governance, in turn, depends on the attributes of the...

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Too smart to be selfish? Measures of cognitive ability, social preferences, and consistency

Chen, Chia-Ching; Chiu, I-Ming; Smith, John; Yamada, Tetsuji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Although there is an increasing interest in examining the relationship between cognitive ability and economic behavior, less is known about the relationship between cognitive ability and social preferences. We investigate the relationship between consequential measures of cognitive ability and...

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Poverty and Intelligence: Evidence Using Quantile Regression

Oasis, Kodila-Tedika; Remy, Bolito-Losembe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

robust. Moreover, the mitigating incidence of intelligence is higher in bottom quantiles than in top quantiles, which …

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