Immigration

New paper out: Country of Origin IQ and Muslim Percentage Predict Grade Point Average in School among 116 Immigrant Groups in Denmark

17. April 2021

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). 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…

Education, Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

New paper out: What Happened to Brussels? The Big Decline and Muslim Immigration

22. December 2020

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 Belgium, both in the 19 communes of Brussels and in the country as a whole (n = 589 communes). We find very strong relationships between…

Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

Studies using national IQs for predicting immigration outcomes

10. December 2019

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. Most of these studies are authored by me and coauthors, but not the first two from 2010, which were seemingly independently conceived by two sets…

Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

No Swedish refugee miracle: large negative net contributions of immigrants

27. September 2019 0 Comments

Recently, I found a Swedish language report that discusses economic consequences of refugee immigration to Sweden. Ruist, Joakim. 2018:3 Tid för integration – en ESO-rapport om flyktingars bakgrund och arbetsmarknadsetablering. The report is published by “Expertgruppen för Studier i Offentlig ekonomi”, expert group for studies in public finances, which is a subunit under the ministry…

Economics, Immigration

Economic impact of immigration: A Nordic perspective (Screencast lecture)

24. September 2019 0 Comments

I made a new video, sort of as an experiment (with a bad microphone, will get another one for next video). The slides are here. I talk about economics of immigration, mainly from a Nordic perspective, of course, I take a very data-heavy approach. Main goals of doing these: Scientific impact. I almost never watch…

Economics, Immigration

Arab engineer IQ?

2. August 2019 0 Comments

As others have pointed out many times (recently Richwine 2019), one cannot just use identical thresholds of educational attainment to select for identical levels of human capital (broadly conceptualized) among sending immigrant countries. Example of this was that Heiner Rindermann mentioned in an interview (in German) that: Selbst in einer Elitegruppe, Ingenieurstudenten aus den Golfstaaten,…

Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability

Massive Danish sibling study confirms Charles Murray’s findings

17. July 2019 0 Comments

Massive sibling study just dropped, and was also presented at ISIR 2019. Hegelund, E. R., Flensborg-Madsen, T., Dammeyer, J., Mortensen, L. H., & Mortensen, E. L. (2019). The influence of familial factors on the association between IQ and educational and occupational achievement: A sibling approach. Personality and Individual Differences, 149, 100-107. The present register-based study…

Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability, Sociology

Article out: First Names, Cognitive Ability and Social Status in Denmark

20. June 2019 0 Comments

Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2019). First Names, Cognitive Ability and Social Status in Denmark. Mankind Quarterly, 59(4). Retrieved from http://mankindquarterly.org/archive/issue/59-4/5 It is well established that general intelligence varies in the population and is causal for variation in later life outcomes, in particular for social status and education. We linked IQ-test scores from the Danish draft…

Immigration, intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability