IQ, Academic Performance, Environment, and Earnings

By Jeffrey S. Zax, D. Rees. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2002

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Place of Work and Place of Residence: Informal Hiring Networks and Labor Market Outcomes (2008, unknown): “We find evidence of significant social interactions operating at the block level: residing on the same versus nearby blocks increases the probability of working together by over 33 percent.”
Fathers and the Flexibility Stigma (2013, unknown): “The findings from this analysis replicate earlier analyses supporting the importance of human capital (e.g., Zax & Reese, 2002).”
Heterogeneous peer effects in education (2014, unknown): “Using the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study of Social and Psychological Factors in Aspiration and Attainment (WLS), Zax and Rees (2002) were the first to analyze the role of friendships in school on future earnings.”
The Returns to Cognitive Abilities and Personality Traits in Germany (2010, background): “6 Cawley et al. (2001), and Zax and Rees (2002) conclude that cognitive ability is a poor predictor of earnings compared to a direct measure of education, family background, and environment.”
Estimating returns to education using twins in urban China (2012, methodology): “Using the urban household survey that was conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics for 1988–2001, Zhang et al. (2005) find a dramatic increase in the return to education in urban China from only 4% in 1988 to more than 10% in 2001.”