National IQ and economic outcomes

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 103-107

  Meisenberg, Gerhard ^a  

^a ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Dominica)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Education; Gini index; Human capital; Intelligence; IQ; School achievement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860690578     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.06.022     Document Type: Article

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