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…
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).…
Danish study of freedom of speech and Muslim immigrants
Since a lot of foreigners are talking about this one and I am in a position to read the Danish language, it seems worthwhile to recap it here. The Danish…
Why tracking COVID-19 hospitalization data makes sense
Every day, I post the updated Danish COVID-19 hospitalization data on Twitter and Facebook The latest version is always available at https://rpubs.com/EmilOWK/COVID19_Denmark. The raw data are here. The figures for…
Danish national IQ
Best estimate of Danish-Scandinavian IQ based on recent, large samples is ~103 relative to UK norms. What is the Danish national IQ? If we look at Lynn and Vanhanen 2012,…
Cognitive ability of Westerners and non-Westerners: data from the Danish military draft
Rnotebook: http://rpubs.com/EmilOWK/immigrant_IQ_Danish_draft Because I was discussing this dataset with a friend, I decided to reexamine it. Examining this dataset was my first reviewed paper (Kirkegaard 2013). It was manually done…
Organ donation consent vs. actual rates
There is a famous paper arguing the case for libertarian paternalism by using organ donation consent rates. Johnson, E. J., & Goldstein, D. (2003). Do defaults save lives?. Science, 302(5649),…
The performance of immigrants from Yugoslavia in Denmark and Norway
This is actually an older post, but by accident I posted it on the Danish language sister blog. https://twitter.com/JayMan471/status/639768391906144256 I don't know what study that is, however, I do have…
The performance of African immigrants in Europe: Some Danish and Norwegian data
Due to lengthy discussion over at Unz concerning the good performance of some African groups in the UK, it seems worth it to review the Danish and Norwegian results. Basically,…
New paper out: Educational attainment, income, use of social benefits, crime rate and the general socioeconomic factor among 71 immigrant groups in Denmark
Educational attainment, income, use of social benefits, crime rate and the general socioeconomic factor among 71 immigrant groups in Denmark http://openpsych.net/ODP/2014/05/educational-attainment-income-use-of-social-benefits-crime-rate-and-the-general-socioeconomic-factor-among-71-immmigrant-groups-in-denmark/