Swedish immigrant crime data from the 1980s
I was skimming a Wikipedia article related to immigrant crime and came across an obscure Swedish language report from the 1990s: Ahlberg, J. (1996). Invandrares och invandrares barns brottslighet: En…
New paper out: Immigrant crime in Germany 2012-2015
Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Becker, D. (2017). Immigrant crime in Germany 2012-2015. Open Quantitative Sociology & Political Science. Retrieved from https://openpsych.net/paper/50 So the German paper is finally out. As…
Some simple models of US county voting outcomes
Woodley convinced me that these are of actual interest. As some of you may recall, I compiled a large county level (n≈3000) dataset some time ago, but didn't use it…
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…
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