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Caste and Education: A Brief Review of Literature

Hari, Naveen - 2021

The interplay between caste and education has been always a topic of debate in India since a long time now. The inter-linkage is sometimes clearly visible and sometimes not due to the qualitative nature of caste. This paper summarizes various literature on caste and education.

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Language education and economic outcomes in a bilingual society

Yuki, Kazuhiro - 2021

language in national business and in inter-group communications. How much weights should be placed on common language education … and on ethnic language education is a crucial issue in school education of minority students. This paper develops a model … education is reasonably effective in skill development) and only for those with adequate wealth. Common-language-only education …

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A Simple Complementary Development Mechanics for African Countries

Dinda, Soumyananda - 2009

This paper provides a simple development mechanism for African nations, where economic development is low due to not only low level of physical capital but also poor social capital that leads to lot of conflicts. The study suggests for development of social capital, which is a broader concept...

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Crimes and the Bell Curve: The Role of People with High, Average, and Low Intelligence

Burhan, Nik Ahmad Sufian; Kurniawan, Yohan; Sidek, … - 2014

The present study examines whether crime rates can be reduced by increasing the IQ of people with high, average, and low IQ. Previous studies have shown that as a determinant of the national level of income per capita growth and technological achievement, the IQ of the intellectual class (those...

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The Impact of Low, Average, and High IQ on Economic Growth and Technological Progress: Do All Individuals Contribute Equally?

Burhan, Nik Ahmad Sufian; Mohamad, Mohd Rosli; … - 2014

Individuals that reside in the highest social stratum of intelligence (i.e., those that have a high IQ) have been shown to generate relatively more national income and are more innovative, with those that have the lowest levels of IQ being less influential on economic development. However, the...

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Intellectual Giftedness for Leadership: How Robust is the Crime Reducing Effect of Intellectual Class?

Burhan, Nik Ahmad Sufian; Che Razak, Razli; Selamat, … - 2017

This paper aims to reassess Burhan et al.’s (2014, Intelligence, 47, 12–22) findings on the impact of intelligence (IQ) on the crime rates at a cross-country level. People who belong to the intellectual group, characterized by IQ at the 95th percentile of a normal distribution were found to...

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The Bell Curve of Intelligence, Economic Growth and Technological Achievement: How Robust is the Cross-Country Evidence?

Burhan, Nik Ahmad Sufian; Che Razak, Razli; Rosli, … - 2017

Intelligence quotient (IQ) scores are normally distributed within a nation’s population. In a cross-country regression, Burhan et al. (2014, Intelligence, 46, 1–8) had statistically proven that intellectual class represented by the 95th percentile IQ had contributed most to economic growth....

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The Origins and Long-Run Consequences of the Division of Labor

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2016

This research explores the historical roots and persistent effects of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. Exploiting a novel ethnic-level dataset, which combines geocoded ethnographic, linguistic and genetic data, it advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that population...

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The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-modern Times

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2018

This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that intra-ethnic diversity had a positive effect on the division of labor across ethnicities in the pre-modern era. Exploiting a variety of...

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The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-modern Times

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2018

This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. Exploiting a variety of identification strategies and a novel ethnic level dataset combining geocoded ethnographic, linguistic and genetic data, it shows that higher levels of intra-ethnic diversity...

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