Invisible Geniuses : Could the Knowledge Frontier Advance Faster? /

The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data from the setting of mathematics, this paper establishes two results. First, we document that individuals who demonstrate exceptional talent in their teenage years have an irreplacea...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Agarwal, Ruchir
مؤلفون آخرون: Gaule, Patrick
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/268
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF
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