Black and White Names
Evolution and Determinants
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5752725 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hui Ren Tan (National University of Singapore, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 959-1002 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050722000389 |
| OpenAlex | W4310546592 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
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
Demographic economics · Divergence (linguistics) · Economic geography · Economics · Ethnology · Exploit · Genealogy · Geography · Incentive · Linguistics · Market economy · Sociology · White (mutation) · African history and culture analysis · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |