Data and Code for: Discrimination and the Returns to Cultural Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University; Leah Boustan, Princeton University; Katherine Eriksson, UC Davis; Stephanie Hao, Princeton University

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Project Citation:

Abramitzky, Ran, Boustan, Leah, Eriksson, Katherine, and Hao, Stephanie. Data and Code for: Discrimination and the Returns to Cultural Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-08-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/E120710V1

Project Description

Summary: We document that, in the early twentieth century, children of immigrants who were given more-foreign first names completed fewer years of schooling, earned less, and married less assimilated spouses. However, we find few differences in the adult outcomes of brothers with more/less foreign-sounding first names. This pattern suggests that the negative association between ethnic names and adult outcomes in this era does not stem from discrimination on the basis of first names but instead reflects household differences associated with cultural assimilation. We cannot rule out discrimination on the basis of other ethnic cues.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      I26 Returns to Education
      J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
      J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
      J71 Labor Discrimination
      N32 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
      Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 1920 – 1940

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