Biographical note: Wolfgang Schneider ist Direktor des Instituts für Kulturpolitik der Universität Hildesheim und Inhaber des UNESCO-Lehrstuhls »Cultural Policy for the Arts in Development«. Fokus seiner Forschungen sind u.a. Theaterpolitik, Kulturelle Bildung und Auswärtige Kulturpolitik....

Human capital plays an important role in the theory of economic growth, but it has been difficult to measure this abstract concept. We survey the psychological literature on cross-cultural IQ tests and conclude that intelligence tests provide one useful measure of human capital. Using a new...