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"National IQ and National Productivity: The Hive Mind Across Asia"

Jones, Garett - In: Asian Development Review 28 (2011) 1, pp. 51-71

A recent line of research demonstrates that cognitive skills—intelligence quotient scores, math skills, and the like … intelligence may matter more for nations than for individuals: (i) intelligence is associated with patience and hence higher … savings rates; (ii) intelligence causes cooperation; (iii) higher group intelligence opens the door to using fragile, high …

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Cognitive skill and technology diffusion: An empirical test

Jones, Garett - In: Economic Systems 36 (2012) 3, pp. 444-460

Cognitive skills are robustly associated with good national economic performance. How much of this is due to high-skill countries doing a better job of absorbing total factor productivity from the world's technology leader? Following Benhabib and Spiegel (Handbook of Economic Growth, 2005), who...

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Human Capital and National Institutional Quality: Are TIMSS, PISA, and National Average IQ Robust Predictors?

Jones, Garett; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2014

Is human capital a robust predictor of good institutions? Using a new institutional quality measure, the International Property Rights Index (IPRI), we find that cognitive skill measures are significant, robust, and large in magnitude. We use two databases of cognitive skills: estimates of...

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IQ and national productivity

Jones, Garett - Palgrave Macmillan

A recent line of research in economics and psychology hypothesizes that differences in national average intelligence … theorem-driven institutional quality in high average IQ countries. Experiments indicate that intelligence predicts greater pro …

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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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Human Capital and National Institutional Quality: Are TIMSS, PISA, and National Average IQ Robust Predictors?

Jones, Garett; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014

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IQ in the Ramsey Model: A Naive Calibration

Jones, Garett - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

I show that in a conventional Ramsey model, between one-fourth and one-half of the global income distribution can be explained by a single factor: The effect of large, persistent differences in national average IQ on the private marginal product of labor. Thus, differences in national average IQ...

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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118848

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

Jones, Garett; Schneider, W. - In: Journal of Economic Growth 11 (2006) 1, pp. 71-93

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005716573

Average player traits as predictors of cooperation in a repeated prisoner's dilemma

Al-Ubaydli, Omar; Jones, Garett; Weel, Jaap - In: Journal of behavioral and experimental economics 64 (2016), pp. 50-60

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