IQ and the wellbeing of nations
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Keywords
wellbeing; life satisfaction; intelligence; IQ; cross-country.;All these keywords.
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- I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EVO-2015-09-05 (Evolutionary Economics)
- NEP-HAP-2015-09-05 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-NEU-2015-09-05 (Neuroeconomics)
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