Economic impact of immigration: A Nordic perspective (Screencast lecture)
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…
Arab engineer IQ?
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…
Massive Danish sibling study confirms Charles Murray’s findings
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…
Article out: First Names, Cognitive Ability and Social Status in Denmark
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…
Immigrant IQ gains by generation: evidence from PIAAC
Thanks to Chet Robie for sending me his study. There's been quite a bit of research on immigrant IQs. From within our network, Heiner Rindermann and James Thompson published a…
Fertility of immigrant groups in Denmark by generation
It's somewhat of an alt right myth that immigrant groups come into the country, and then continuously outbreed the original population even if no more immigration happens. While this maybe…
Immigrant employment and wages by origin country/region, host country, sex, and generation
Thanks to Trannyporno for sending me this study. Algan, Y., Dustmann, C., Glitz, A., & Manning, A. (2010). The economic situation of first and second‐generation immigrants in France, Germany and…
How large is the decline in migrants entering the EU?
Someone pointed me to data showing a recent very steep decline in incoming migrants. I had a look at the data and plotted it. Unfortunately, the dataset has some problematic…
Country level indicators of altruism
A traditional approach to studying altruism has been to do some kind of economic game. E.g. seeing how nice people are in ultimatum games. One such study: Oosterbeek, H., Sloof,…
Ancestry effects in Brazil: economist approach with person names
I have written a lot about ancestry approaches, generally from a psychometric and genomic angle. However, economists can also play this game. Daniel A. F. Lopes, Geraldo A. Silva Filho,…