IQ and the Wealth of Nations

By T. Vanhanen. Heredity, 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

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Intelligence, Human Capital, and Economic Growth: A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach (2005, neutral): “The reader who is interested in further detail regarding the database is encouraged to consult Appendix 1 of Lynn and Vanhanen (2002); LV’s underlying IQ data from 163 tests are available online at Sailer (2004).”
Variation in Raven's Progressive Matrices scores across time and place (2009, neutral): “This pattern of results suggests a more complex relationship between intelligence and wealth at country level than suggested by Lynn and Vanhanen (2002, 2006) and shows that explaining this relationship requires much caution (Hunt & Wittmann, 2008).”
Secular declines in cognitive test scores: A reversal of the Flynn Effect (2008, background): “If such differentials were to continue, then any national differences in cognitive test performances (Lynn & Vanhanen, 2002) might be expected to diminish in the future.”
Temperature and evolutionary novelty as forces behind the evolution of general intelligence (2008, neutral): “I use data on national IQ (the mean IQ of a national population) from Lynn and Vanhanen (2006), which is an updated and expanded edition of Lynn and Vanhanen (2002).”
Quality‐Consistent Estimates of International Schooling and Skill Gradients (2009, background): “Lynn and Vanhanen (2002) created average IQ measures for 185 countries; however, for the 81 countries for which they actually have historical IQ data (including Italy, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden in our sample), the IQs were observed at just two different points in time, and they were from small…”
Personality, IQ, and Lifetime Earnings (2018, background): “Talented individuals are seen as drivers of long-term growth (Hughes, 1986; Jones, 2011; Lynn and Vanhanen, 2002; Murphy et al., 1991).”
How Does Social Trust Affect Economic Growth (2012, methodology): “In the last, the effect on the IQ of social trust is not significant, which may nonetheless be an artifact of the way Lynn and Vanhanen (2002) treat missing observations.9 The effect of trust on governance is also quite robust, as the coefficient in regressions with all three alternative indicators…”
A systematic literature review of the average IQ of sub-Saharan Africans (2010, methodology): “Average IQ in the United States is approximately 2 points lower than the average in Great Britain (Lynn & Vanhanen, 2002; Raven et al., 1996), so the IQs fromUS norms need to be lowered by 2 points to arrive at an average IQ in terms of British norms.”
National IQs: A Review of Their Educational, Cognitive, Economic, Political, Demographic, Sociological, Epidemiological, Geographic and Climatic Correlates. (2012, background): “These results confirm the theory that population differences in IQ evolved over tens of thousands of years in response to the cognitive demands of survival in cold winters that we presented in Lynn and Vanhanen (2002) and Lynn (2006).”
THIRTY YEARS OF RESEARCH ON RACE DIFFERENCES IN COGNITIVE ABILITY (2005, background): “Lynn (1990; Lynn & Vanhanen, 2002) also proposed a crucial role for nutrition, finding that the heavier twin at birth typically has a larger head and brain size, as well as a higher IQ in adolescence, and that infants fed breast milk typically average higher IQs (8.3 points) at age 8 than those fed…”
Do you have to be smart to be rich? The impact of IQ on wealth, income and financial distress (2007, background): “Lynn and Vanhanen (2002) published a book entitled “IQ and the Wealth of Nations,” which uses Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a proxy for national wealth.”