Quality of Institutions: Does Intelligence Matter?
Isaac Kalonda-Kanyama and
Oasis Kodila-Tedika
No 308, Working Papers from Economic Research Southern Africa
Abstract:
This paper analyzes the e ect of the average level of intelligence on different measures of the quality of institutions, using a 2006 cross-sectional sample of 113 countries. The results show that average IQ positively affects all the measures of institutional quality considered in our study, namely government effi ciency, regulatory quality, rule of law, […]
Keywords: Education; Government and Growth; institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D73 I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-08-01
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