Black and white Americans tend to have different names today. This divide was long in the making. I show that the racial divergence in naming patterns was a gradual and continuous process spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I then exploit the migration of households from the South to determine if place matters for name choices. Children born after their households moved receive names that are less black or more white than their older siblings, a difference that widens with time spent outside the South. This may reflect the cultural assimilation of households rather than a response to economic incentives.

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黑白名称：演变和决定因素

今天，美国黑人和白人往往有不同的名字。这种分歧由来已久。我展示了命名模式中的种族差异是一个跨越 19 世纪和 20 世纪的渐进和连续的过程。然后，我利用来自南方的家庭迁移来确定地点对名称选择是否重要。家庭搬迁后出生的孩子的名字比他们的哥哥姐姐更黑或更白，这种差异随着在南方以外生活的时间而扩大。这可能反映了家庭的文化同化，而不是对经济激励的反应。