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Finland challenges this line of reasoning. Wealthy, safe, some of the best social benefits in the world for raising children. What one would think of as the the ideal situation for having children. Their birth rate is tanking.

There have actually been a few academic studies on this topic by Vivek Wadwha and the Kauffman foundation:

"An Ivy League degree may get you a job as an investment banker or VC, but it won’t increase your odds of becoming a successful entrepreneur."

"In other words, 81% of the tech company founders came from “regular” schools. To make my colleagues at Harvard feel better (and to keep my job), I’ll acknowledge that the Ivies represented 8% of the sample even though those schools only graduate 1.6% of American students."

http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/24/got-degree-envy-no-worries-...