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 …

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 …

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