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Garett Jones - Immigration, National IQ, & Less Democracy

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Moving Kids From Poor Countries to Richer Countries Will Increase Global IQ

libertarians and open-border advocates tend to be focused on the short run static effects. If you look at the IQ of adoptees from poor countries, who go that Sweden is the only country that collects data, but if you get adopted by a parent in Sweden, the half the gap between the averages of Western countries goes away. So I mean, it is one of the ways we can increase global IQ just by moving kids to countries with good health outcomes that will nourish their intelligence.

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