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Just to add my bit to the salary question - one year after I qualified as a lawyer in Ireland the Law Society did a survey of newly qualified lawyers (i.e. my year and the two years ahead of us). We were all young, in our early twenties, so well before the having babies stage, and all working...

Hi Esel, But this is the point that I am making. It is the entirety of the group that matters. People take studies like the one you have quoted, and take it to mean that it doesn't matter that much if they put their bright kid (from a good socio economic background) in a good private school...

There's one thing that is always ignored in these debates - the phrase 'after adjusting for socio-economic factors.' This is the point. Parents who choose private schools or who move into upper class areas with good public schools are actively making that adjustment. I don't believe that it...