From earning to learning / Susan E. Mayer -- Aptitude or achievement : why do test scores predict educational attainment and earnings? / Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips -- Economic success and the evolution of schooling and mental ability / Christopher Winship and Sanders D. Korenman --...

In a meritocratic society an individual's economic success is determined by their ability, not by their parents' socio-economic status. We assess whether meritocracy has increased in both the British education system and labour market. The richness of our longitudinal data enables us to look at...