Intelligence and deforestation: International data

Raufhon Salahodjaev

Forest Policy and Economics, 2016, vol. 63, issue C, 20-27

Abstract: This paper investigates the effect of intelligence on deforestation rates, using data from 186 nations, over the period 1990–2010. Our findings provide novel evidence that human psychology, measured by nation-IQ, is negatively related with deforestation. This paper documents that, on average moving from a country with the lowest IQ score (61) to the one with highest (107.1) is associated with a 1.15 percentage point reduction in the rate of deforestation. The negative link between intelligence and deforestation remains robust when we account for the feedback from environment to intelligence.

Keywords: Deforestation; Intelligence; IQ; Cross-country (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2015.12.003

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