Popularity in high school predicts modestly higher earnings later in life—at least in one generation, a study found. (click below to read more)
The focus was on 4,330 male high-school seniors in 1957 who took part in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a long-term survey of 10,317 men and women. In 1975 the men were asked to name their three best male friends from high school, and the researchers used frequency of mentions as an indicator of each person's popularity.
The researchers found that kids who were smarter, older and from warm families were more popular. They also concluded that high-school popularity is a good indicator of having mastered the same social skills needed to succeed in the workplace: Nearly four decades later, those in the top fifth of popularity were earning 10% more than those in the bottom fifth.
"Popularity," Gabriella Conti, Andrea Galeotti, Gerrit Mueller and Stephen Pudney, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 18475
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