The mortality consequences of distinctively black names

Cook, Lisa D.; Logan, Trevon D.; Parman, John

doi:10.1016/j.eeh.2015.10.001

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“… 22 Using death certificates from North Carolina from 1802 to 1970, Cook, Logan, and Parman (2016) show that Black men with distinctively Black names had slightly longer life expectancies compared with other African-American men. …”

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Obama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality

Margo¹

2016

J. Econ. Hist.

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New benchmark estimates of Black-White income ratios for 1870, 1900, and 1940 are combined with standard post-World War census data. The resulting time series reveals that the pace of racial income convergence has generally been steady but slow, quickening only during the 1940s and the modern Civil Rights era. I explore the interpretation of the time series with a model of intergenerational transmission of inequality in which racial differences in causal factors that determine income are very large just after the Civil War and which erode slowly across subsequent generations.“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”—W. E. B. Du Bois,The Souls of Black Folk

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Obama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality

Margo¹

2016

J. Econ. Hist.

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“…These names were verified in the entire census and further verified in three independent data sources with broad historical coverage. Subsequent to publucation of their original study, the distinctive nature of the names was confirmed in yet another independent historical data source (Cook, Logan, and Parman 2016). In sum, they find a striking, robust degree of distinctiveness for small set of African American names.…”

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The antebellum roots of distinctively black names

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Parman

2021

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdiscipli

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This paper explores the existence of distinctively Black names in the antebellum era. Building on recent research that documents the existence of a national naming pattern for African American males in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Cook, Logan, and Parman, Explorations in Economic History 53:64-82, 2014), we analyze three distinct and novel antebellum data sources and uncover three stylized facts. First, the Black names identified by Cook, Logan and Parman using post-Civil War data are common names among Blacks before Emancipation. Second, these same Black names are racially distinctive in the antebellum period. Third, the racial distinctiveness of the names increases from the early 1800s to the time of the Civil War. Taken together, these facts provide support for the claim that Black naming patterns existed in the antebellum era and that racial distinctiveness in naming patterns was an established practice well before Emancipation. These findings further challenge the view that Black names are a product of twentieth century phenomena such as the Civil Rights Movement.

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“…Complementing other work that leverages historical microdata to study behavior and fertility (Guinnane et al, 2006;Jaadla et al, 2020;Klüsener et al, 2019), naming is a compelling and increasingly analyzable behavior with respect to demographic change. The value of using names to understand population patterns is underscored by prior analyses of how naming relates to fertility behavior (Goldstein & Stecklov, 2021;Hacker, 1999), immigrant assimilation (Abramitzky, Boustan, & Connor, 2020;Abramitzky, Boustan, & Eriksson, 2020;Stecklov & Goldstein, 2016), mortality (Cook et al, 2016) and the use of last names to study social mobility (Clark et al, 2015;Connor, 2020). As demographers have yet to widely leverage the insight revealed in child naming, this will continue to be a verdant area for future research.…”

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In the name of the father? Fertility, religion and child naming in the demographic transition

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2021

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This article shows that parents reveal information about their fertility behavior through how they name their children. I arrive at this finding from detailed examination of the net fertility of 130,000 married couples in Ireland circa 1910, a country known for its historically high fertility rate. After stringently accounting for the occupation, religion and location of couples, I find higher fertility rates among couples who chose distinctly Catholic names and traditional names for their children, with the latter being particularly important. Exposure to towns and cities lowered net fertility and weakened preferences for traditional and Catholic names. Cumulatively, these findings highlight the role of traditional rural norms over explicitly religious influences in driving high fertility rates in Ireland. The impact of towns and cities in reducing net fertility suggests that Ireland’s sluggish urbanization was a key factor in its high historical fertility rate.

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The mortality consequences of distinctively black names

Cited by 26 publications

References 39 publications

Obama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality

Obama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality

The antebellum roots of distinctively black names

In the name of the father? Fertility, religion and child naming in the demographic transition

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