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Intelligence, human capital, and economic growth: A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) approach

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G Jones… - Journal of economic growth, 2006 - Springer
Abstract Human capital plays an important role in the theory of economic growth, but it has
been difficult to measure this abstract concept. We survey the psychological literature on
cross-cultural IQ tests and conclude that intelligence tests provide one useful measure of ...
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On money and output: Is money redundant?

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RW Hafer, JH Haslag… - Journal of Monetary Economics, 2007 - Elsevier
There is an emerging consensus that money can be largely ignored in making monetary
policy decisions. Rudebusch and Svensson [1999, Policy Rules and Inflation Targeting. In
Taylor, JB (Ed.), Monetary Policy Rules. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 203–246; ...
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Are smarter groups more cooperative? Evidence from prisoner's dilemma experiments, 1959-2003

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G Jones - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2008 - Elsevier
Are more intelligent groups better at cooperating? A meta-study of repeated prisoner's
dilemma experiments run at numerous universities suggests that students cooperate 5–8%
more often for every 100-point increase in the school's average SAT score. This result ...
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IQ in the production function: Evidence from immigrant earnings

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G Jones… - Economic Inquiry, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We show that a country's average IQ score is a useful predictor of the wages that immigrants
from that country earn in the United States, whether or not one adjusts for immigrant
education. Just as in numerous microeconomic studies, 1 IQ point predicts 1% higher ...
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Exchange rate management strategies in the accession countries: The case of Hungary

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G Jones… - Comparative Economic Studies, 2004 - palgrave-journals.com
Abstract Several leading candidate countries will eventually enter the European Monetary
Union (EMU). A key question is what exchange rate management policy should be pursued
after joining the European Union (EU). This paper focuses on the impact of Euro-area ...
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[PDF] Intelligence, human capital, and economic growth: An extreme-bounds analysis

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G Jones… - Econometric Society 2004 Latin American …, 2004 - tv.isg.si
Human capital plays an important role in the theory of economic growth, but it has been
difficult to measure this abstract concept. We survey the psychological literature on cross-
cultural IQ tests, and conclude that modern intelligence tests are well-suited for measuring ...
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Dynamic IS curves with and without money: An international comparison

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RW Hafer… - Journal of International Money and Finance, 2008 - Elsevier
When money is added to a dynamic IS model, evidence from six countries indicates that
money growth usually helps predict the GDP gap and that the predictive power of a short-
term real interest is much weaker than previous work suggests. Thus, for dynamic IS ...
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[PDF] Some Tests for the Existence of “Open Mouth Operations”

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G Jones - Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 2001 - research.stlouisfed.com
Abstract Does the Federal Reserve control the federal funds rate by controlling reserve
supply? Evidence presented in this paper indicates that the answer is: No, total reserves and
nonborrowed reserves are generally unchanged on the days and weeks following a ...
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[PDF] Cognitive ability and technology diffusion: An empirical test

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G Jones - American Economic Association Annual Meeting, 2008 - aea-net.org
Abstract Recent economic research has shown that cognitive ability scores are robustly
associated with good national economic performance. How much of this is due to high-
ability countries doing a better job of absorbing total factor productivity from the world's ...
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[CITATION] US troops and economic growth: Regression analysis with robustness tests

G Jones… - Center for Data Analysis Report, 2005
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Volatile Interest Rates, Volatile Crime Rates: A new argument for interest-rate smoothing

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G Jones… - 2004 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
Good monetary policy requires estimates of all of its effects: monetary policy impacts
traditional economic variables such as output, unemployment rates, and inflation. But does
monetary policy influence crime rates? By extending the vector autoregression literature, ...
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IQ in the Utility Function: Cognitive skills, time preference, and cross-country differences in savings rates

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G Jones… - 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Social science research has shown that intelligence is positively correlated with
patience, while growth theory predicts that more patient countries will save more. In a closed
economy, that means high average IQ countries will become more capital-intensive. In an ...
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[CITATION] Intelligence, Human Capital, and Economic Growth

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J Garett… - Journal of Economic Growth, 2006
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US Troops and Economic Growth

G Jones… - 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: In the midst of a major US military effort in Iraq and the Middle East, economists
should be able to assess the relationship between US troops and growth. The necessity of
military force in providing security for nation-building is a common assumption among ...
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[CITATION] Inteliggence, Human capital and Economic Growth: A Bayesian Approach Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach

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G Jones, J Schneider - Journal of Economic Growth
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Patience, cognitive skill and coordination in the repeated stag hunt

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O Al-Ubaydli, G Jones… - 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Coordination games have become a critical tool of analysis in fields such as
development and institutional economics. Understanding behavior in coordination games is
an important step towards understanding the differing success of teams, firms and nations. ...
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National IQ and national productivity: The hive mind across Asia

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G Jones - Asian Development Review, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 51-71, …, 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: 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? ...
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IQ and the Economic Growth of US States

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G Jones, R Hafer… - … Working Paper in Economics No. 11 …, 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: In the cross-country literature, cognitive skills are robust predictors of economic
growth. We investigate claims by psychologists that the same is true at the state level. In a
variety of specifications using four proxies for average state IQ used in the psychology ...
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The O-Ring Sector and the Foolproof Sector: An explanation for cross-country income differences

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G Jones - 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Differences in worker skill cause modest differences in wages within a country, but
are associated with massive differences in productivity across countries (Hanushek and
Kimko, 2000). I build upon Kremer's (1993) O-ring theory of production to explain this ...
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US Troops and Foreign Economic Growth

G Jones… - 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Do American troops help or hinder economic growth in other countries? We
consider a newly constructed dataset of the deployment of US troops over the years 1950–
2000 and discover a positive relationship between deployed troops and host country ...
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What is the right number of women? Hints and Puzzles from Cognitive Ability Research

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G Jones - Econ Journal Watch, 2008 - econjwatch.org
Abstract: This paper comments on the lead symposium article,“Reaching the Top?—On
Gender Balance in the Economics Profession,” by Christina Jonung and Ann-Charlotte
Ståhlberg. Using evidence from brain scans, mental ability tests, personality tests, and ...
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IQ and national productivity

G Jones - The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2011 - ideas.repec.org
A recent line of research in economics and psychology hypothesizes that differences in
national average intelligence, proxied by IQ tests, are important drivers of national economic
outcomes. Cross-country regressions, while showing a robust IQ-growth relationship, ...
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[PDF] The O-Ring Sector and the Foolproof Sector: An explanation for skill externalities

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G Jones - 2010 - mason.gmu.edu
Abstract Differences in worker skill cause modest differences in wages within a country, but
are associated with massive differences in productivity across countries (Hanushek and
Kimko, 2000). I build upon Kremer's (1993) O-ring theory of production to explain this ...
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Human Capital in the Creation of Social Capital: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets

G Jones… - GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 11-27, 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We provide evidence that individuals selected from societies with high human
capital are more likely to cooperate when placed in an environment comparable to the state
of nature: The world of New York City diplomatic parking. National average IQ, a robust ...

[CITATION] A. Aslund, Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2002) 508 pp.,[UK pound] 65/ …

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G Jones - Economic Systems, 2005 - ideas.repec.org
If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to
view it first. In case of further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are
not on the IDEAS site. Please be patient as the files may be large.
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[PDF] DiD stimulus Dollars hire the unemployeD? answers to questions about the american recovery anD reinvestment act

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G Jones, DM Rothschild - 2011 - mercatus.org
In an effort to boost hiring and job creation and to invest in a variety of domestic
infrastructure programs, Congress passed and the president signed the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), commonly known as the economic stimulus package, in ...
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[CITATION] Measuring the liquidity effect with daily data

G Jones - 2000 - en.scientificcommons.org
Publikationsansicht. 56541026. Measuring the liquidity effect with daily data / (2000). Jones,
Garett. Abstract. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2000.. Vita. Includes
bibliographical references (leaves 77-79). Details der Publikation. ...
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[PDF] Symposium: Gender and Economics

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G Jones - Econ Journal Watch, 2008 - econjwatch.org
Discuss this article at Jt: http://journaltalk. net/articles/5573 garett Jones econ Journal Watch
228 studies, well-documented impacts of sex hormones on brain structure, and the repeated
finding of higher means and variances in relevant mental abilities (especially ...
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The Effect of Monetary Policy on Economic Output

J Haslag, RW Hafer… - 2003 - ideas.repec.org
There is substantial research effort devoted to identifying a sufficient statistic for monetary
policy. The purpose of this paper is to broaden the scope of the on-going investigation along
three dimensions. First, we follow up the Rudebusch-Svensson claim of parameter ...
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Cognitive skill and technology diffusion: An empirical test

G Jones - Economic Systems, 2012 - Elsevier
Abstract 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 ( ...
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(DP 2012-03) 2D: 4D Asymmetry and Gender Differences in Academic Performance: Evidence from Moscow and Manila

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JVC Nye, G Androuschak, D Desierto… - UPSE Discussion …, 2012 - econ.upd.edu.ph
Abstract Exposure to prenatal androgens affects both future behavior and life choices.
However, there is still relatively limited evidence on its effects on academic performance.
Moreover, the predicted effect of exposure to prenatal testosterone (T)-which is inversely ...
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Speed Bankruptcy: A Firewall to Future Crises

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G Jones - Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
During the 2008 financial crisis, the US government purchased large equity stakes in major
financial institutions. The author argues that another source of equity was available: the long-
term bonds issued by these same banks. Overnight debt-to-equity conversions, or what ...
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[CITATION] 2D: 4D ASYMMETRY AND ACADEMIC PERFOMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM MOSCOW AND MANILA

Y Maria, N John, A Gregory… - Препринты …, 2011 - … университет" Высшая школа …

“The free market” and the Asian crisis

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G Jones - Critical Review, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The Asian financial crisis, which devastated many of the newly industrializing
countries, is said to have demonstrated the inherent fragility of economies built upon laissez‐
faire principles. However, it appears that the major sources of disruption have come from ...
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[PDF] The Effect of Monetary Policy on Economic Output

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RW Hafer, J Haslag, G Jones… - Journal of Monetary …, 2006 - econ.missouri.edu
There is widespread agreement that the Federal Reserve targets the federal funds rate.
While it relatively easy to identify the Fed's operating target, a more difficult and substantive
questions is: Does there exist a sufficient statistic—a single indicator—for monetary policy ...
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[DOC] Accession Country Dynamic IS Curves and Euro-Area Interest Rates: Implications for the Choice of An Optimal Interim Exchange Rate Policy

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G Jones… - webradio.siue.edu
We modify the vector autoregression approach in order to deal with the problems presented
by both the short time series available for the accession countries, and the large number of
variables that may be relevant when modeling a small open economy. Focusing on the ...
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[PDF] Will the intelligent inherit the earth? IQ and time preference in the global economy

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G Jones - 2012 - mason.gmu.edu
Abstract Social science research has shown that intelligence is positively correlated with
patience and frugality, while growth theory predicts that more patient countries will save
more. This implies that if nations differ in national average IQ, countries with higher ...
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[PDF] The Bond Market Wins

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G Jones - Econ Journal Watch, 2012 - econjwatch.org
The most likely scenario is one of chronic fiscal contrition, like the 2011 debt limit
negotiations, but reenacted every few years. American leaders—driven by rating agencies,
examples from overseas, and perhaps a pro-austerity branch of government—huddle ...
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[PDF] IQ and Entrepreneurship: International Evidence

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RW Hafer… - 2012 - mason.gmu.edu
Abstract National measures of cognitive skill, including IQ tests, have received attention
recently as a possible driver of cross-country productivity differences. In a parallel literature,
national measures of entrepreneurial activity and pro-entrepreneurship policies have ...
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2D: 4D Asymmetry and Academic Perfomance: Evidence from Moscow and Manila

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G Androushchak, M Yudkevich, J Nye, D Desierto… - 2012 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Exposure to prenatal androgens affects both future behavior and life choices.
However, there is still relatively limited evidence on its effects on academic performance.
Moreover, the predicted effect of exposure to prenatal testosterone (T)-which is inversely ...
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The liquidity effect across the short end of the term structure

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G Jones - Applied Financial Economics Letters, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Because the Federal Reserve is constantly responding to developments in the economy, it
has been difficult to come up with convincing estimates of the effects of exogenous shifts in
money supply on interest rates. This study uses exogenous, well-identified reserve supply ...
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[CITATION] An Analysis of North Carolina Confederate Pension Records, 1885-1946

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[PDF] Patience and coordination in the repeated stag hunt

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O Al-Ubaydli, G Jones… - 2011 - aeaweb.org
Abstract Coordination games have become a critical tool of analysis in fields such as
development and institutional economics. Understanding behavior in coordination games is
an important step towards understanding the differing success of teams, firms and nations. ...
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