Income correlates with education independent of measured cognitive skill

Evidence

Note that the bars of any given pair are nearly the same height, showing that the income-education relationship is al­ most the same for individuals with the identical cognitive at­ tainments as for all individuals.*8 s a m p le : Non-Negro white males of nonfarm background, 1962, aged 35-44 years. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 1010

Categorization

• XREF: The statistical knife against technocratic-meritocratic explanations of income inequality; pairs with the mill finding that literacy did not predict productivity. — connects to: Egalitarian schooling barely changes income distribution — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 194; Schools’ main economic function is not cognitive skill production — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 996; Controlling for IQ barely weakens the link between education and income — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 1028 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Controlling for IQ barely weakens the link between education and income #corroborates (0.97) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 1028
• Cognitive skills explain little of education’s link to economic success. #corroborates (0.95) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 556
• Class-based educational inequality persists almost unchanged when IQ is held constant #corroborates (0.93)
• IQ’s link to income mostly reflects environment’s link to both #complicates (0.82) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 1077
• Education and class capital determine which migrants land skilled work #exemplifies (0.72) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 514