Immigration economics for economist dummies
Some time ago, I published a 50 minutes long video walkthrough of some research on economics effects of immigration for Nordic countries. Since some people don't really watch videos, I…
Comments on “The Inheritance of Inequality” (Bowles & Gintis, 2002)
Some anon sent me this paper, asked if there was a rebuttal somewhere. It's a well cited economics paper, 1248 citations on Google Scholar. I wasn't familiar with it, but…
Bryan Caplan’s Open Borders book: considerations
Not intended as a proper book review. I didn't read this book yet. Back in 2019, Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith published a serious comic book Open Borders: The Science…
New video out: Country Well-Being: National IQ Vs. Time Preference
The companion video for the paper, published back in December https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5OjZ2BK99Q
FIGURE 1.6. Conventional versus surname estimates of status persistence.
Gregory Clark videos
Prior posts touching on Gregory Clark: What does money buy? Selected readings from lottery studies, Thinking about intergenerational stability of socioeconomic status Updated 2020-02-23: Actually, cancellation comes for Gregory Clark…
Book review: The Great Reset (Klaus Schwab & Thierry Malleret, 2020)
Sometimes I take the time to read a 'normal' book. This was one of them, prompted by some friends who wanted my opinion. The best thing I can say about…
New paper out: National Intelligence Is More Important for Explaining Country Well-Being than Time Preference and Other Measured Non-Cognitive Traits
Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Karlin, A. (2020). National Intelligence Is More Important for Explaining Country Well-Being than Time Preference and Other Measured Non-Cognitive Traits. Mankind Quarterly, 61(2). https://doi.org/10.46469/mq.2020.61.2.11 Patient…
What does money buy? Selected readings from lottery studies
In science, we are generally mostly interested in causal relationships because these are the ones that matter. Causality is generally defined in terms of counter-factuals: if things were such and…
China economy predictions: 1990-2020
There is a list that's floating around (meaning: copy pasted without sources), and it's also got no exact sources, so it's unclear how legit it is. So I did some…
Macroeconomics and intelligence: a collection
See prior post on national IQs and who you can't cite. Economists and intelligence researchers don't generally talk: Test scores, on the other hand, offer direct measures of a variety…