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Title: A Dynamic Analysis of the Effects of Intelligence and Socioeconomic Background on Job-Market Success
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1. Ganzach, Yoav
A Dynamic Analysis of the Effects of Intelligence and Socioeconomic Background on Job-Market Success
Intelligence 39,2-3 (March-April 2011): 120-129.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289611000237
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Educational Attainment; Intelligence; Mobility; Socioeconomic Background; Wage Growth; Wage Models

We compare the effects of socioeconomic background (SEB) and intelligence on wage trajectories in a dynamic growth modeling framework in a sample that had completed just 12 years of education. I show that the main difference between the two is that SEB affected wages solely by its effect on entry pay whereas intelligence affected wages primarily by its effect on mobility. I argue that a major issue that has been at the center of the debate about the roles of intelligence and SEB in social success -- the difficulty in accurately measuring SEB -- is to a large extent resolved by these results.
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Ganzach, Yoav. "A Dynamic Analysis of the Effects of Intelligence and Socioeconomic Background on Job-Market Success." Intelligence 39,2-3 (March-April 2011): 120-129.