Emil O. W. Kirkegaard blog
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 thought a written summary might also be handy, so here we go. For those who prefer video, it is here: Slides here. In fact, we…
Continue ReadingLast year, this meme was floating around: The data are real enough, and the years are right. It seems that Franco was able to sustain fertility in Spain during his regime. Is he the only one? Well, his neighbor, Portugal, also had a dictator of sorts, Salazar, who was in power 1932-1968. How does their…
Continue ReadingA lot of people are interested in fertility. As a matter of fact, there is no more important metric for long term viability of a civilization (Romans knew it too). Western civilization has been failing at this game for about 50 years, since our collective Great Society transformation. Anyway, so Western countries are usually pussies…
Continue ReadingBack in October Razib Khan had Carole Hooven on his podcast. She’s the author of a new popsci book on testosterone: T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us (342 pages). In the book she mentions some other recent woke books on testosterone, specifically: Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography (288 pages) by…
Continue ReadingBack in 2017, I wrote about how Sweden has a policy of hiding their immigrant crime rate statistics. (See also this tweet.) One cannot even buy them from the statistics office, I tried in vain for a few months. However, it is also known that the Swedish authorities previously released such statistics from the 1980s…
Continue ReadingA reader sent me this interesting report that I had previously somehow not heard of: Rune Jørgen Sørensen, Jon Marius Iversen, Johan From, and Hans Bonesrønning. Culture and school performance: Evidence from second-generation immigrants in Norway. 2015-2020 The paper studies how the cultural orientation of immigrant parents affects the school performance of their children. We…
Continue ReadingBorderless Welfare State: The Consequences of Immigration on Public Finances Sometimes white nationalists describe me as a proponent of ‘IQ nationalism’, they don’t mean it well. It’s somewhat of a misnomer of that position but it’s kinda catchy so we will stick with it. There doesn’t appear to be any post anywhere setting out what…
Continue ReadingThis one came out in Februrary, so we are a bit behind, but that’s because I wanted to time the blogpost with the video. Aaaand the video is online now. Pesta, B. J., Fuerst, J. G. R., & Kirkegaard, E. (2021). County-level USA: No Robust Relationship between Geoclimatic Variables and Cognitive Ability. Journal of Geographical…
Continue ReadingKirkegaard, E. O. W., & Fedorov, J. (2021). Country of Origin IQ and Muslim Percentage Predict Grade Point Average in School among 116 Immigrant Groups in Denmark. Mankind Quarterly, 61(3). Immigrants to Western countries typically have worse social outcomes than natives, but country of origin immigrant groups differ widely. We studied school performance in Denmark…
Continue ReadingResearchgate link (ungated) Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Dumoulin, B. (2020). What Happened to Brussels? The Big Decline and Muslim Immigration. Mankind Quarterly, 61(2). https://doi.org/10.46469/mq.2020.61.2.8 We examined regional inequality in Belgium, both in the 19 communes of Brussels and in the country as a whole (n = 589 communes). We find very strong relationships between…
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