Zax, Jeffrey S.; Rees, Daniel I. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 84 (2002) 4, pp. 600-616
This paper explores the effects of peers, friends, family, IQ, and academic performance, observed in the last year of high school, on earnings at ages 35 and 53. All significantly affect earnings at both ages. The effects of IQ are much smaller than asserted in, for example, The Bell Curve, and...
