全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): The Mortality Consequences of Distinctively Black Names

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w21625
来源ID	Working Paper 21625
	The Mortality Consequences of Distinctively Black Names
	Lisa Cook; Trevon Logan; John Parman
发表日期	2015-10-12
出版年	2015
语种	英语
摘要	Race-specific given names have been linked to a range of negative outcomes in contemporary studies, but little is known about their long term consequences. Building on recent research which documents the existence of a national naming pattern for African American males in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Cook, Logan and Parman 2014), we analyze long-term consequences of distinctively racialized names. Using over three million death certificates from Alabama, Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina from 1802 to 1970, we find a robust within-race mortality difference for African American men who had distinctively black names. Having an African American name added more than one year of life relative to other African American males. The result is robust to controlling for the age pattern of mortality over time and environmental factors which could drive the mortality relationship. The result is not consistently present for infant and child mortality, however. As much as 10% of the historical between-race mortality gap would have been closed if every black man were given a black name. Suggestive evidence implies that cultural factors not captured by socioeconomic or human capital measures may be related to the mortality differential.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; History ; Labor and Health History
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w21625
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579300
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lisa Cook,Trevon Logan,John Parman. The Mortality Consequences of Distinctively Black Names. 2015.