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Transracial/international adoption studies
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Can you crowdsource a meta-analysis of all transracial/international adoption studies that report cognitive data or related data such as educational, social status, income crime, etc. variables.

[size=large]List of studies[/size]

Already well-known studies:
Scarr, S., & Weinberg, R. A. (1976). IQ test performance of black children adopted by White families. American Psychologist, 31, 726-739.
Weinberg, R. A., Scarr, S., & Waldman, I. D. (1992). The Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study: A follow-up of IQ test performance at adolescence. Intelligence, 16, 117-135.

Duyme, M., Dumaret, A. C., & Tomkiewicz, S. (1999). How can we boost IQs of “dull children”?: A late adoption study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 96(15), 8790-8794.

Relatively unknown studies:
Lindblad, F., Hjern, A., & Vinnerljung, B. (2003). Intercountry Adopted Children as Young Adults—‐A Swedish Cohort Study. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 73(2), 190-202.
Has data, see: http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=4995

Stams, G. J. J., Juffer, F., Rispens, J., & Hoksbergen, R. A. (2000). The development and adjustment of 7-year-old children adopted in infancy. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 41(08), 1025-1037.
Has data, see http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=5004

Disinhibited Social Behavior Among Internationally Adopted Children. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2629385/
No IQ data reported by group. Email sent to author.
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