Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/123667 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/15/012
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
This paper explores the determinants of intelligence by focusing on the role played by barriers to the diffusion of competence and human capital. The results based on cross-sectional data from 167 countries consisting of 1996-2009 averages suggest that, genetic distance to global frontiers has a negative relationship with human capital. Countries that are genetically far from leading nations tend to have lower levels of human capital with the negative correlation from the USA frontier higher relative to the UK frontier. The sign is consistent with the relationship of genetic diversity and robust to the control of macroeconomic, geographical, institutional and influential variables. Policy implications are discussed.
Subjects: 
Intelligence
Human Capital
Genetic distance
JEL: 
G15
O50
O16
F15
N7
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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