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Kevin M.'s avatar

I don't understand how you could write an article about "who wins Nobel prizes" and not at least mention the fact that over 20% of Nobel prizes have been awarded to Jewish people. That statistic is more remarkable than anything else you mentioned.

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Paul Novosad's avatar

You might be interested in our paper on the childhood socioeconomic status of the Nobel laureates in the sciences, which we proxied based on fathers' occupation: https://paulnovosad.com/pdf/nobel-prizes.pdf

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