Yes. https://bfi.uchicago.edu/research/working-paper/shocking-behavior-cherokee-land-lottery-1832-georgia-and-outcomes-across … Insofar as these are not merely test-retest gains or teaching to the test, they fade quickly anyway.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284123208_The_environment_in_raising_early_intelligence_A_meta-analysis_of_the_fadeout_effect …
Reminder: parental wealth not generally causal for children's outcomes. Evidence from Swedish lotto winners. You cannot buy your children a big advantage, it's mostly a genetic lottery. Best you can do is choose a good mate. https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/131/2/687/2606947 …pic.twitter.com/z9Id74z97Q
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Guess what: winning lottery isn’t genetically predicted whereas real success is. Who’d have imagined?
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One could probably predict lottery winners from non-winners. That's because it's not random who plays lottery, so one would find signal of lottery players. If one only looked among players, there might still be some signal because some people play more than others...
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I suspect that social capital matters more for cross-generational outcomes than a one-time infusion of financial capital without a network or prestige or managerial power.
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