Immigrant performance in the Netherlands: brief look
I have only been able to find one fairly detailed dataset of immigrant performance in the Netherlands (covered in this study). It found the usual things, but with much uncertainty…
Preparation for: Municipality level social inequality in Brazil
I was reviewing a paper on social inequality in Brazil at the state level (I published one myself in 2015), and it struck me that one should be able to…
Why didn’t Denmark sell Greenland? Some comments
Gwern has an old note on the US' offer to buy Greenland from Denmark after WW2. Aside from the usual nationalist feelings about land, the Greenland population is ~25% genetically…
Book review: Hive mind (Garett Jones)
Read Gwern's review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1433728829 Aside from that, it's a lot of wasted opportunity. For instance, the income~IQ relationship. The discussion is extremely economisty. Not even mentioned that people vary a…
Useful datasets for country of origin analyses
Here's a collection of previously unused datasets (by hereditarians) that are useful. Australia: 45 and Up. Huge, n=250k, medical dataset that has country of origin and many socioeconomic indicators. Costs…
Important gender gaps
Following the publication of another gender pay gap article, I wondered: What kinds of gender gaps do people think are important to talk about? Googling stuff is a crude measure…
Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS): useful for testing spatial & generational transferability
In a not so well written paper (that we should update to be better presented), John Fuerst and I previously used two hypotheses using the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshman…
Scraping: temperature and precipitation data for all NOAA weather stations
Some people claim that the climate has direct causal influences on income, cognitive ability and so on. Usually, these academics just regress IQ on climate variables at the country or…
Data sharing and Add Health
I am doing an S factor study of US counties in the usual way. For that reason, I need some kind of county-level cognitive ability estimate. I know that this…
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