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Gregory Clark: belief

19 Feb 2025 Conversations with Tyler Gregory Clark on Social Mobility, Migration, and Assortative Mating (Live at Mercatus)

“My co-author, Neil Cummins, has a paper that just came out, I think, or is just coming out, about the Irish in England, which argues that there was significant negative selection to the Irish who actually moved to England, and that the Irish within England, even over the course of 150 years, have remained a lower class in English society, particularly those who moved to the North of England.”

— Gregory Clark

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Gregory Clark
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belief
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19 Feb 2025
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Conversations with Tyler

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…Ah, okay, now we’re talking. Same here. [laughter] So, I’ve thought about the whole selection issue. My co-author, Neil Cummins, has a paper that just came out, I think, or is just coming out, about the Irish in England, which argues that there was significant negative selection to the Irish who actually moved to England, and that the Irish within England, even over the course of 150 years, have remained a lower class in English society, particularly those who moved to the North of England. Why negative selection in this hypothesis? Because the ones who are about to starve?…

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