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PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
卷 22, 期 6, 页码 754-763出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611407207
关键词
cognitive ability; cross-cultural differences; educational measurement; intelligence; TIMSS; PISA; PIRLS; STEM
Traditional economic theories stress the relevance of political, institutional, geographic, and historical factors for economic growth. In contrast, human-capital theories suggest that peoples' competences, mediated by technological progress, are the deciding factor in a nation's wealth. Using three large-scale assessments, we calculated cognitive-competence sums for the mean and for upper-and lower-level groups for 90 countries and compared the influence of each group's intellectual ability on gross domestic product. In our cross-national analyses, we applied different statistical methods (path analyses, bootstrapping) and measures developed by different research groups to various country samples and historical periods. Our results underscore the decisive relevance of cognitive ability-particularly of an intellectual class with high cognitive ability and accomplishments in science, technology, engineering, and math-for national wealth. Furthermore, this group's cognitive ability predicts the quality of economic and political institutions, which further determines the economic affluence of the nation. Cognitive resources enable the evolution of capitalism and the rise of wealth.
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