Please call me John: name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900–1930

The majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted American first names. In this paper we study the economic determinants of name choice, by relating the propensity of immigrants to carry an American first name to the local concentration of their compatriots...

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Main Author: Carneiro, Pedro (author)
Other Authors: Lee, Sokbae (author), Reis, Hugo (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/32286
Country:Portugal
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