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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 22.
Published in final edited form as: Am Econ Rev Insights. 2020 Mar;2(1):125–141. doi: 10.1257/aeri.20190079

Figure 2. EFFECT OF TIME IN UNITED STATES ON NAME FOREIGNNESS BY SENDING COUNTRY: PAST and PRESENT.

Figure 2.

Notes: In this figure we estimate a regression of the foreignness index of a child’s name on a set of interactions between mother’s country of birth and a linear term for mother’s age at birth. We report 20 × the coefficient value of mother’s age at birth for each country of birth. Regressions also include indicators for child’s rank in the birth order, birth year in five-year bands, and mother fixed effects. Country labels also report the foreignness index of children born to mothers age 20 from each country. Panel A uses the complete-count 1920 Census. Panel B uses California birth certificates from 1989–2015. Sample details in note to Figure 1. All countries except Wales in the historical data and China in the modern data have coefficients that are significantly different from zero at the 5 percent level.