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Sounds plausible. If anybody finds the citation for this, please post it.
How about http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/are-the-wealthiest-countries-the-smartest-countries.html ?
Citing "Cognitive Capitalism: The impact of ability, mediated through science and economic freedom, on wealth". (PDF not immediately available in Google.)
EDIT: efm found the PDF: http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/hsw/psychologie/professuren/entwpsy/team/rindermann/publikationen/11PsychScience.pdf
Or http://www.nickbostrom.com/papers/converging.pdf :
EDITEDIT: high IQ predicts superior stock market investing even after the obvious controls. High IQ types are also more likely to trust the stock market enough to participate more in it
"Are Smarter Groups More Cooperative? Evidence from Prisoner's Dilemma Experiments, 1959-2003", Jones 2008:
Later: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/10/group_iq_one_so.html
What if higher SAT schools tend to be more prestigious and have stronger student identification?
Dunno. It's consistent with all the other results about IQ and not school spirit...
Hm. Looks like going to a public/private school didn't seem to mediate student cooperation all that much, which probably works against my theory.
They're all US studies. Do we have anything from other cultures?