Norway’s big royal family marriage experiment
Historically, noble and especially royal families refused to let their children marry commoners. This would risk bad blood they said (according to movies). This practice flies in the face of…
Heritability of achievement tests at age 10-14 in Norway’s entire population
Since discussing heritability estimates is all the rage, with Seb Jensen producing a new meta-analysis, and Scott Alexander providing a great review (which was somehow praised by both sides since…
Migrant crime in Germany, redux
This new study is making the rounds, also in the English speaking world (e.g. Reuters): Higher proportion of migrants does not mean more crime, German institute says BERLIN, Feb 18…
Norwegian cognitive inequality and its social consequences
There's a new kickass study based on Norwegian register data: Bratsberg, B., Fjell, A. M. M., Rogeberg, O. J., Skirbekk, V. F., & Walhovd, K. B. (2024). Differences in early…
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…
Too many women in the wrong places: Norwegian navy edition
As women increasingly are hired into traditionally male jobs via affirmative action laws or indirect pressure via media, we see more and more incompetence. This is true whether it is…
Math scores for 2nd generation immigrants in Norway by country of origin
A reader sent me this interesting report that I had previously somehow not heard of: Rune Jørgen Sørensen, Jon Marius Iversen, Johan From, and Hans Bonesrønning. Culture and school performance:…
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,…