This project began with my 2025 paper with Daniel Van Pelt and Emil Kirkegaard, “Regional Migration Patterns and Educational Outcomes in Italy: A Surname-Based Analysis of Historical Population Movements”. That paper used Italian surname distributions to study migration and educational outcomes, and it introduced surname-weighted Mathematical Olympiad s…
Elite Surnames, Average Phenotypes
Can a tiny elite sample, reweighted by surname geography, recover province-level averages?
