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Unusual Names
- Dalton Conley named his children E and Yo as an experiment.
- Yo's full name, including later additions, is unusually long.
Names as Signals
- A name can signal parents' values, but determining its impact on a child's life is complex.
- Steve Levitt suggests names primarily reflect the parents' identity and aspirations.
Name and Economic Outcome
- Levitt and Roland Fryer studied California birth certificates to analyze name effects.
- Their research showed distinctively Black names didn't correlate with economic outcomes.