FOR PRECIS, PT. 1 --- Due Jan. 30 --- Summarize Both
  1. Fryer, Roland G., Jr., and Steven D. Levitt. 2004. “The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 119: 767–805.
  2. Goldstein, Joshua R. and Guy Stecklov. 2016. “From Patrick To John F.: Ethnic Names and Occupational Success in the Last Era of Mass Migration.” American Sociological Review 81: 85-106.
READINGS FOR FEBRUARY 11 --- JUST READ THE FRONT ENDS!
  1. Bastian, Kevin C., and Sarah C. Fuller. 2018. "Answering the Bell: High School Start Times and Student Academic Outcomes." AERA Open 4.
  2. Halpern-Manners, Andrew, John Robert Warren, and Florencia Torche. 2017. "Panel Conditioning in the General Social Survey." Sociological Methods & Research 46: 103-124.
  3. Laird, Jennifer, Zachary Parolin, Jane Waldfogel, and Christopher Wimer. 2018. "Poor State, Rich State: Understanding the Variability of Poverty Rates across US States." Sociological Science 5: 628-652.
FOR PRECIS, PT. 2 --- Due Feb. 18 --- Summarize the 8 Assigned to You
  1. ​​Busse, Thomas V., and Louisa Seraydarian. 1977. "Desirability of First Names, Ethnicity and Parental Education." Psychological Reports 40: 739-742.
  2. Hacker, J. David. 1999. “Child Naming, Religion, and the Decline of Marital Fertility in Nineteenth-Century America.” History of the Family 4(3):339–65.
  3. Bertrand, Marianne, and Sendhil Mullainathan. 2004. “Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination.” American Economic Review 94: 991–1013.
  4. ​Figlio, David N. 2005. "Names, Expectations and the Black-White Test Score Gap." NBER Working Paper No. w11195. National Bureau of Economic Research.
  5. ​Arai, Mahmood, and Peter Skogman Thoursie. 2009. "Renouncing Personal Names: An Empirical Examination of Surname Change and Earnings." Journal of Labor Economics 27: 127-147.
  6. Laham, Simon M., Peter Koval, and Adam L. Alter. 2012. "The Name-Pronunciation Effect: Why People Like Mr. Smith More Than Mr. Colquhoun." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 48: 752-756.
  7. Collado, M. Dolores, Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín, and Andrés Romeu. 2013. “Long-Run Intergenerational Social Mobility and the Distribution of Surnames.” Universidad De Murcia UMUFAE Working Paper 36768.  (Accessed January 3, 2019).
  8. Rubinstein, Yona, and Dror Brenner. 2014. "Pride and Prejudice: Using Ethnic-Sounding Names and Inter-Ethnic Marriages to Identify Labour Market Discrimination." Review of Economic Studies 81: 389-425.
  9. Cook, Lisa D., Trevon D. Logan, and John M. Parman. 2014. "Distinctively Black Names in the American Past." Explorations in Economic History 53: 64-82.
  10. Clark, Gregory, et al. 2015. "Surnames: A New Source for the History of Social Mobility." Explorations in Economic History 55: 3-24.
  11. Olivetti, Claudia, and M. Daniele Paserman. 2015. "In the Name of the Son (and the Daughter): Intergenerational Mobility in the United States, 1850-1940." American Economic Review 105: 2695-2724.
  12. Güell, Maia, José V. Rodríguez Mora, and Chris I. Telmer. 2015. “The Informational Content of Surnames, the Evolution of Intergenerational Mobility, and Assortative Mating.” Review of Economic Studies 82: 693–735.
  13. Cook, Lisa D., Trevon D. Logan, and John M. Parman. 2016. "The Mortality Consequences of Distinctively Black Names." Explorations in Economic History 59: 114-125.
  14. Carneiro, Pedro, Sokbae Lee, and Hugo Reis. 2016. "Please Call Me John: Name Choice and the Assimilation of Immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930." IZA Discussion Paper No. 9792. (accessed December 5, 2018)
  15. ​Biavaschi, Costanza, Corrado Giulietti, and Zahra Siddique. 2017. "The Economic Payoff of Name Americanization." Journal of Labor Economics 35: 1089-1116.​
READINGS FOR FEBRUARY 27 --- JUST READ THE METHODS SECTIONS!
  1. Uggen, Christopher. 2000. "Work as a Turning Point in the Life Course of Criminals: A Duration Model of Age, Employment, and Recidivism." American Sociological Review 4: 529-546.
  2. Torche, Florencia. 2011. "The Effect of Maternal Stress on Birth Outcomes: Exploiting a Natural Experiment." Demography 4: 1473-1491.
  3. Warren, John Robert, and Melanie R. Edwards. 2005. "High School Exit Examinations and High School Completion: Evidence from the Early 1990s." Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 27: 53-74.
READINGS FOR MARCH 27 --- JUST READ THE RESULTS AND DISCUSSION SECTIONS!
  1. Cook, Lisa D., Trevon D. Logan, and John M. Parman. 2014. "Distinctively Black Names in the American Past." Explorations in Economic History 53: 64-82.
  2. Torche, Florencia. 2011. "The Effect of Maternal Stress on Birth Outcomes: Exploiting a Natural Experiment." Demography 4: 1473-1491.​
  3. Halpern-Manners, Andrew, John Robert Warren, and Florencia Torche. 2017. "Panel Conditioning in the General Social Survey." Sociological Methods & Research 46: 103-124.​