National IQ and National Productivity: The Hive Mind Across Asia

A recent line of research demonstrates that cognitive skills—intelligence quotient scores, math skills, and the like—have only a modest influence on individual wages, but are strongly correlated with national outcomes. Is this largely due to human capital spillovers? This paper argues that the answe...

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Main Author: Garett Jones
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: World Scientific Publishing 2011-06-01
Series:Asian Development Review
Online Access:https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S011611051150003X