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If you are so smart, why aren't you an entrepreneur?
Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; Sluis, Justin van der - 2008
How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs’ incomes as compared to employees? We answer three questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math...
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Cognitive ability, character skills, and learning to play equilibrium : a level-k analysis
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2014
In this paper we investigate how cognitive ability and character skills influence 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...
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Cognitive ability, character skills, and learning to play equilibrium : a level-k analysis
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2014
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Efficiency of health investment : education or intelligence?
Bijwaard, Govert; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2015
efficiency advantage is solely driven by intelligence. We operationalize efficiency of health investment as the probability of …) healthy, (ii) ill (in hospital), and (iii) death. We use data from a Dutch cohort born around 1940 that links intelligence … tests at age 12 to later-life hospitalization and mortality records. The results suggest that higher Intelligence induces …
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Education, intelligence and diseases in old age
Niccodemi, Gianmaria; Bijwaard, Govert - 2018
education choices and health, such as (ob- served) parental background and (unobserved) intelligence, may play an important role … measurement system using IQ tests to identify latent intelligence. Educational choices, surviving up to old age and medication use … all depend on observed individual factors and on latent intelligence. Based on the estimation results, we derive the …
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Intra- und intergenerationale Umverteilungseffekte in der bundesdeutschen Alterssicherung auf Basis humankapitaltheoretischer Überlegungen
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor);  … - 2008
In der folgenden Studie möchten wir ausgewählte Aspekte von intra- und intergenerationalen Umverteilungseffekten im System der bundesdeutschen Alterssicherung auf der Basis der Humankapitalheorie mit Simulationsmethoden analysieren. Falls es das Ziel der Politik ist, die Ungleichheit des...
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India shining and Bharat drowning : comparing two Indian states to the worldwide distribution in mathematics achievement
Das, Jishnu (contributor); Zajonc, Tristan (contributor) - 2008
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Can we exploit collective intelligence for collaborative deliberation? : the case of the climate change
Landoli, Luca; Klein, Mark; Zollo, Giuseppe - 2008
Current open-source/peer-production technologies, such as forums, wikis and blogs, have enabled an unprecedented explosion of global knowledge sharing, but appear to be less successful at enabling collaborative deliberation (i.e. the systematic enumeration, analysis, and selection of solution...
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The MIT collaboratorium : enabling effective large-scale deliberation for complex problems
Klein, Mark - 2008
While current online discussion tools such as email, chat, wikis, and web forums have been enormously successful at enabling unprecedented global knowledge sharing, they face significant limitations from the perspective of enabling effective large-scale deliberation around complex and...
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Die Befragung "Arbeiten und Lernen im Wandel" : theoretischer Hintergrund und Konzeption
Kleinert, Corinna; Matthes, Britta; Jacob, Marita - 2008
Angesichts der aktuellen Diskussionen um die Bedeutung kognitiver Grundkompetenzen wie Lesen und Rechnen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen überrascht es, wie wenig empirische Studien es gibt, die sich mit der Bedeutung solcher Kompetenzen für berufliche Karrieren und Erwerbsverläufe Erwachsener...
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