How Do You Say Your Name? Difficult-to-Pronounce Names and Labor Market Outcomes
研究名字的难读程度是否影响劳动力市场结果，发现名字越难读，经济学博士获得学术或终身教职的概率越低，且实验数据中求职者回电率也更低，尤其对简历较弱的候选人影响更大。
We test for labor market discrimination based on an understudied characteristic: name fluency. Analysis of recent economics PhD job candidates indicates that name difficulty is negatively related to the probability of landing an academic or tenure-track position and research productivity of initial institutional placement. Discrimination due to name fluency is also found using experimental data from prior audit studies. Within samples of African Americans (Bertrand and Mullainathan 2004) and ethnic immigrants (Oreopoulos 2011), job applicants with less fluent names experience lower callback rates, and name complexity explains roughly between 10 and 50 percent of ethnic name penalties. The results are primarily driven by candidates with weaker résumés, suggesting that cognitive biases may contribute to the penalty of having a difficult-to-pronounce name.