From my decades-old poster presentation for "Cognitive skill and technology diffusion: An empirical test."
Classic horse race: which better predicted national productivity growth, national average IQ or national average education levels?
The answer is obvious now.
Classic horse race: which better predicted national productivity growth, national average IQ or national average education levels?
The answer is obvious now.
My paper grabbed the data and methods from Benhabib and Spiegel's now-classic Handbook of Economic Growth piece and threw Lynn and Vanhanen's National Average IQ scores into the mix.
Imitate, don't innovate, was my motto here.
Just add one new thing, IQ scores.
Imitate, don't innovate, was my motto here.
Just add one new thing, IQ scores.
Back then, national average IQ scores offered the biggest dataset for cross country skill comparisons.
Now we have the World Bank's Harmonized Learning Outcomes for many countries, which of course continue to find that test scores beat years of education in global horse races.
Now we have the World Bank's Harmonized Learning Outcomes for many countries, which of course continue to find that test scores beat years of education in global horse races.
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