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different cognitive abilities learn differently, we estimate a structural model of learning based on level-k reasoning. We find …
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This perspective paper discusses challenges and risks of the information age, and the implications for the information and communication technologies that need to be built and operated. It addresses ethical and policy issues related with Big Data and how procedures for privacy-preserving data...
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This paper proposes a unifying theory of forecasting in the form of a Golden Rule of Forecasting. The Golden Rule is to be conservative. A conservative forecast is consistent with cumulative knowledge about the present and the past. To be conservative, forecasters must seek all knowledge...
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cases, the arousal of organizational learning curves is conceived as the emergence of routines. In both cases, the …Learning curves can arise out of routing problems, or out of sequencing problems, or a combination of both. In this … paper, learning curves arising out of routing problems are investigated by means of numerical simulations, whereas some …
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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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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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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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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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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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This paper extends the growing literature on knowledge economy by investigating the effect of intelligence on economic … technology within a lifelong learning policy framework. …
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