From a Wall Street Journal story by Josh Zumbrun headlined “How Ivy League Schools Tilt Your Odds in the Lottery of Life”:

Economists have long scoffed at parents’ obsession with getting their kids into an Ivy League college, thanks to research years ago showing it made no difference to a student’s future income.

But it turns out that research might have missed something important. A new look at similar data suggests that for a select minority, Ivy League admission does yield a career jackpot.