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  "title": "Invisible Geniuses: Could the Knowledge Frontier Advance Faster?",
  "publication": "IMF Working Papers, December 7, 2018",
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  "summary": "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.",
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      "heading": "Summary",
      "content": "- The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress.\n- Using novel data from the setting of mathematics, the paper establishes two main results:\n  - Individuals who demonstrate exceptional talent in their teenage years have an irreplaceable ability to create new ideas over their lifetime, suggesting that talent is a central ingredient in the production of knowledge.\n  - Such talented individuals born in low- or middle-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers.\n- The findings suggest that policies to encourage exceptionally-talented youth to pursue scientific careers—especially those from lower income countries—could accelerate the advancement of the knowledge frontier."
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      "heading": "Key Findings",
      "content": "- Exceptional teenage talent predicts an irreplaceable lifetime capacity to create new ideas.\n- Talented individuals born in low- or middle-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers.\n- The research setting and data are drawn from mathematics (novel data from the setting of mathematics)."
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      "heading": "Policy Implications and Recommendations",
      "content": "- Encourage exceptionally-talented youth to pursue scientific careers to accelerate the knowledge frontier.\n- Prioritize policies targeting talented youth from low- or middle-income countries to reduce systematic barriers to becoming knowledge producers."
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      "heading": "Subjects and Keywords",
      "content": "- Subject: Commodities, Education, Gold, National accounts, Personal income, Silver, Tax incentives\n- Keywords: Eastern Europe, Global, Gold, IMO, IMO medalist, IMO participant, IMO performance, IMO score, innovation, knowledge frontier, knowledge production, Personal income, Silver, talent, universities, WP\n\nIMF Working Paper: \"Invisible Geniuses: Could the Knowledge Frontier Advance Faster?\", Ruchir Agarwal and Patrick Gaulé, December 7, 2018.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Invisible Geniuses: Could the Knowledge Frontier Advance Faster?, WP/18/268, December 2018\n  - Invisible Geniuses: Could the Knowledge Frontier Advance Faster?, WP/18/268, December 2018 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Invisible Geniuses: Could the Knowledge Frontier Advance Faster?, WP/18/268, December 2018 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2018/12/07/invisible-geniuses-could-the-knowledge-frontier-advance-faster-46383"
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    "Authors: Ruchir Agarwal, Patrick Gaulé",
    "Published: December 7, 2018",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484385869.001",
    "The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress.",
    "Using novel data from the setting of mathematics, the paper establishes two main results:",
    "The findings suggest that policies to encourage exceptionally-talented youth to pursue scientific careers—especially those from lower income countries—could accelerate the advancement of the knowledge frontier.",
    "Exceptional teenage talent predicts an irreplaceable lifetime capacity to create new ideas.",
    "Talented individuals born in low- or middle-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers.",
    "The research setting and data are drawn from mathematics (novel data from the setting of mathematics).",
    "Encourage exceptionally-talented youth to pursue scientific careers to accelerate the knowledge frontier.",
    "Prioritize policies targeting talented youth from low- or middle-income countries to reduce systematic barriers to becoming knowledge producers.",
    "Subject: Commodities, Education, Gold, National accounts, Personal income, Silver, Tax incentives",
    "Keywords: Eastern Europe, Global, Gold, IMO, IMO medalist, IMO participant, IMO performance, IMO score, innovation, knowledge frontier, knowledge production, Personal income, Silver, talent, universities, WP",
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