Please call me John: Name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900–1930
研究20世纪初美国移民改取英文名的经济动因，发现同国籍移民聚集会降低改名倾向，尤其是对新移民，而劳动力市场条件影响不大。
The majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted American first names. In this paper we study the economic determinants of name choice, by relating the propensity of immigrants to carry an American first name to the local concentration of their compatriots and local labor market conditions. We find that high concentrations of immigrants of a given nationality discouraged members of that nationality from taking American names, in particular for more recent arrivals. In contrast, labor market conditions for immigrants do not seem to be associated with more frequent name changes among immigrants.