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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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This Paper sets out to analyse the ever-growing literature on equilibrium exchange rates in the new EU member states of Central and Eastern Europe in a quantitative manner using meta-regression analysis. We study the extent to which the estimated real misalignments reported in the literature...
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Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal productivity. Consequently, estimates for the gender wage gap have been published for the most diverse countries at different points in time. This meta-study provides a...
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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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We study the determination of Irish inflation between 1926 and 2012. The difference between unemployment and the NAIRU …
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We argue that firms’ balance sheets were instrumental in the propagation of shocks during the Great Recession. Using establishment-level data, we show that firms that tightened their debt capacity in the run-up (“high-leverage firms”) exhibit a significantly larger decline in employment in...
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