Quality of institutions: Does intelligence matter?

Kanyama, Isaac

doi:10.1016/j.intell.2013.10.002

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“…From a macroeconomic perspective, it may be feasible to increase the quality of political institutions through investing in cognitive skills and education. Indeed, recent publications claim that nations with higher IQ have better rule of law (Kanyama, 2014) and lower corruption (Potrafke, 2012). From a political viewpoint the results of this study may be elucidated in line with Glaeser et al (2007) who show that human capital increases the benefits of civic participation.…”

Section: Indirect Relationship Of Intelligencesupporting

confidence: 66%

“…In this study we hypothesize that the benefit of intelligence builds up either through the quality of institutions, or through civic participation among citizens. Indeed, related literature demonstrates that intelligence is an important determinant of institutional arrangements (Kanyama, 2014;Salahodjaev, 2015a). For example, in early empirical articles intelligence, measured by the Army General Classification Test, is positively linked with the rule of law at the US state level (Davenport & Remmers, 1950).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Intelligence and gender (in)equality: Empirical evidence from developing countries

Salahodjaev

Azam

2015

Intelligence

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This paper makes an attempt to explore whether intelligence of nations is related to gender inequality, measured by Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), in developing countries.Related literature robustly links intelligence to economic development, poverty, quality of institutions and informal economic activity. Controlling for conventional antecedents of gender inequality (i.e. religion, political regime, legal origins and trade openness), this paper finds that, on average, a 10-point increase in national IQ scores in the developing world is associated with an 8.2 point reduction in SIGI, ceteris paribus. To test the robustness of our findings we apply instrumental variables (IV) and robust regression methods. We also test whether our results are sensitive to the choice of control variables and heterogeneity of nations in our sample. The negative association of intelligence with gender inequality remains statistically significant and intact in all cases.

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Section: Indirect Relationship Of Intelligencesupporting

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Intelligence and gender (in)equality: Empirical evidence from developing countries

Salahodjaev

Azam

2015

Intelligence

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“…In a similar vein, Nikolaev and Salahodjaev (2016), using data from 81 countries and 50 US states, showed that intelligence leads to a more equal distribution of wellbeing within society. Moreover, at the macro-social level intelligence contributes to economic growth (Ram, 2007), quality of government institutions (Kanyama, 2014), good governance, environmental protection (Obydenkova, Nazarov & Salahodjaev, 2016) and the wealth of nations (Rindermann, Kodila-Tedika and Christainsen, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Government size, intelligence and life satisfaction

Obydenkova

Salahodjaev

2017

Intelligence

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Highlights:-The article explores impact of government size and intelligence on life satisfaction -It finds a novel channel through which bureaucracy impacts subjective wellbeing -The government size impacts positively life-satisfaction in cognitively able societies -The paper contributes to the studies on political institutions and intelligenceGovernment size, intelligence and life satisfaction Abstract Recent studies show that psychological factors such as cognitive ability play an important role in the empirical modeling of life satisfaction and suggest that intelligence is an important proxy for political and intellectual capital. These articles, however, only explore the direct effect of intelligence on subjective wellbeing. In this study, we conjecture that intellectual capital is a mechanism through which the size of bureaucracy impacts life satisfaction. Using data from 147 countries, we find that the interaction term between nation-IQ and government size is positive and significant, suggesting that government size increases life satisfaction most in high-IQ countries and least in countries with lower levels of cognitive abilities.3

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“…Moreover, a number of follow up papers find that cognitive abilities are instrumental to antecedents of economic growth such as institutions (Kanyama, 2014) and credit sector size (Kodila-Tedika & Asongu, 2015) and corruption (Potrafke, 2012).…”

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“…In a follow up study, Salahodjaev (2015c) analyzing data from more than 150 nations finds that cognitive skills have a negative effect on the size of the informal sector relative to GDP. Furthermore, studies find a positive correlations between intelligence and governance indicators (Kanyama, 2014) and freedom (Meisenberg, 2012;Meisenberg, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

Cognitive Abilities, Democracy and Intellectual Property Rights Protection

Odilova¹,

Gu²

2017

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The goal of this research is to investigate the link between cognitive abilities, as measured by cognitive abilities index and intellectual property rights protection using cross-national data. The findings suggest that cognitive abilities at a national level are significantly related with IPR protection. As expected intellectual capacity is positively and significantly related to the intellectual property rights and explain nearly 23% of cross national differences. In particular, a one standard deviation increase in the cognitive abilities index is associated with slightly less than a half standard deviation rise in IPR index. However, 65% of the effect of cognitive abilities on IPR protection is mediated by the democratic institutions.

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Quality of institutions: Does intelligence matter?

Cited by 36 publications

References 24 publications

Intelligence and gender (in)equality: Empirical evidence from developing countries

Intelligence and gender (in)equality: Empirical evidence from developing countries

Government size, intelligence and life satisfaction

Cognitive Abilities, Democracy and Intellectual Property Rights Protection

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