consistently people make decisions to seek their economic goals.” The study was published in the Science magazine, and it is one of many in recent years that shows a greater correlation between education and future success, while also pointing to the fact that rationality among individuals is highly varied.
Professor Kim highlighted this point by saying, “While we know that schooling has been shown in previous work to have positive effects on a wide range of outcomes, such as income and health, our work provides evidence of potentially additional benefits coming from improvements in people’s decision-making abilities.”