Ukrainians in our countries: what are we getting, what can we expect?
As the war rages on, the war refugees are starting to come and more are announced. They are being widely accepted even by the nationalist parties. For instance, Danish New…
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…
Sweden finally publishes new immigrant crime rate data, which shows no surprises
Back 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…
Math scores for 2nd generation immigrants in Norway by country of origin
A 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:…
IQ nationalism
Borderless 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…
New paper out: Country of Origin IQ and Muslim Percentage Predict Grade Point Average in School among 116 Immigrant Groups in Denmark
Kirkegaard, 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).…
New paper out: What Happened to Brussels? The Big Decline and Muslim Immigration
Researchgate 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…
New paper out: Are Danes’ Immigration Policy Preferences Based on Accurate Stereotypes?
Yes, I know, images are not working right now. It's due to site maintenance! Kirkegaard, E. O., Carl, N., & Bjerrekær, J. D. (2020). Are Danes’ Immigration Policy Preferences Based…
New paper out: Public Preferences and Reality: Crime Rates among 70 Immigrant Groups in the Netherlands
Kirkegaard, E. O. W. & de Kuijper, M. (2020). Public Preferences and Reality: Crime Rates among 70 Immigrant Groups in the Netherlands. Mankind Quarterly, 60(3) journal link (gated) We estimated…
Studies using national IQs for predicting immigration outcomes
Below I list all the studies I am aware of that use national IQs in studies of immigrants, usually as an estimate of their IQ levels in the host country.…