Do you have to be smart to be rich? The impact of IQ on wealth, income and financial distress

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Personality and Individual Differences Cognitive ability, personality, and academic performance in adolescence (2008, background): “, 2007; Sternberg, Grigorenko, & Bundy, 2001), but also wealth and socio-economic success (Zagorsky, 2007), job performance (Hunter & Hunter, 1984), and job type (Gottfredson, 2003), to mention a few.”
Do Portfolio Distortions Reflect Superior Information or Psychological Biases? (2013, unknown): “The strong positive relation between smartness and education is intuitive and consistent with the evidence from previous studies that find a strong (above 0.60) correlation between education level and smartness (e.g., Brown and Reynolds (1975), Barber (2005), and Zagorsky (2007)).”
Locus of Control and Savings (2016, background): “Zagorsky (2007), for example, finds that although individuals with higher IQs earn more, having a higher IQ does not necessarily result in greater wealth and can sometimes increase the probability of being in financial difficulty.”