Daniel Kreisman - Georgia State
The Hidden Information In Names
Date: 04/12/2018 (Thu)
Time: 3:30pm- 5:00pm
Location: Seminar will be held on-site: Gross Hall 270
Organizer: Marcos Rangel
Meeting Schedule: Login or email the organizer to schedule a meeting.
All meetings will be held in the same location as the seminar unless otherwise noted.
8:30am - Marcos Rangel
10:00am - Duncan Thomas
10:30am - Anna Gassman-Pines
11:00am - Emma Zang
11:30am - Rob Garlick
12:00pm - Lunch- Romina Tome, M'Balou Camara, Maria Laurito
1:30pm - Ajenai Clemmons
2:00pm - Sarah Komisarow
2:30pm - Giovanna Merli
3:00pm - Seminar Prep
3:30pm - Seminar Presentation (3:30pm to 5:00pm)
5:45pm - Dinner at Mateo with Marcos Rangel,...
Additional Comments: We use data from 19 million students to observe test scores and educational outcomes by the "blackness" of one's name. We find that students with relatively black sounding names have lower test scores, even among black students from the same zip code and net of parental background and educational attainment. We also find that black students with black sounding names prefer HBCU’s and colleges with larger black populations, conditional on test scores. Yet, exploiting only within family variation in names entirely eliminates any and all differences by name. This leads to two conclusions. First, the relationship between test scores, educational outcomes and the blackness of one's name is attributable to unobservable across family differences and is not a direct result of the name per se. Second, that resume audit and correspondence studies should be interpreted with caution.