Making a Name: Women's Surnames at Marriage and Beyond
追踪了大学毕业女性在婚后及生育后保留自己姓氏的比例变化，发现1975年至1985年间保留率大幅上升，但1990年代初开始下降，且保留姓氏的女性往往已“成名”。
This paper tracks the fraction of college graduate women who kept their surnames upon marriage and after childbirth and explores some of the correlates of surname retention. Data from the New York Times, Harvard College alumni books, and Massachusetts birth records are used. Surname retention at marriage greatly increased from 1975 to about 1985 although Massachusetts birth records and the Harvard data show a decrease in the fraction keeping their surnames beginning around the early 1990s. The observable characteristics of importance in surname retention are those revealing that the bride has already “made a name” for herself.