“…The positive life outcomes associated with educational attainment extend far beyond wealth and professional success, to include physical and mental health, wellbeing and even longevity (Cutler & Lleras-Muney, 2012;Montez & Hayward, 2014). Similar long-term positive associations with health and wealth are observed for general cognitive ability: higher cognitive skills have been linked to higher earnings (Daly, Egan, & O'Reilly, 2015;Kalechstein, Newton, & van Gorp, 2003), better physical and mental health (Batty, Deary, & Zaninotto, 2016;Baune et al, 2010;Latvala, Kuja-Halkola, D'Onofrio, Larsson, & Lichtenstein, 2016;Mollon, David, Zammit, Lewis, & Reichenberg, 2018;Snyder, Miyake, & Hankin, 2015) and lower mortality (Deary, Weiss, & Batty, 2010). The shared positive life outcomes associated with cognitive ability and educational attainment are likely to be intrinsically linked via the strong connection between these two traits.…”