Black and White Names: Evolution and Determinants
研究显示美国黑人与白人名字的种族分化在19至20世纪逐渐形成，并发现从南方迁出的家庭中，孩子出生地越远离南方，名字越不“黑”或越“白”，这可能反映了文化同化而非经济激励。
Black and white Americans tend to have different names today. This divide was long in the making. I show that the racial divergence in naming patterns was a gradual and continuous process spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I then exploit the migration of households from the South to determine if place matters for name choices. Children born after their households moved receive names that are less black or more white than their older siblings, a difference that widens with time spent outside the South. This may reflect the cultural assimilation of households rather than a response to economic incentives.