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Direct linkCaplan, Bryan; Miller, Stephen C. – Intelligence, 2010
Education is by far the strongest predictor of whether a non-economist will share the economic beliefs of the average economist. (Caplan, 2001) Is the effect of education as large as it seems? Or is education largely a proxy for cognitive ability? Using data from the General Social Survey (GSS), we show that the estimated effect of education…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Educational Attainment, Cognitive Ability, Economics
