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ADOPTIVE PARENTS WITH HIGHER IQS THAN BIRTH MOTHER: See Bruce
Sacerdote, “The Nature and Nurture of Economic Outcomes,” National Bureau of
Economic Research working paper, 2000.
FINNISH LITERACY: See Lizette Alvarez, “Educators Flocking to Finland, Land of
Literate Children,” New York Times, April 9, 2004.
A BOOK FOR EVERY TOT: See John Keilman, “Governor Wants Books for Tots; Kids
Would Get 60 by Age 5 in Effort to Boost Literacy,” Chicago Tribune, January 12, 2004.
THE INFLUENCE OF ADOPTIVE PARENTS: See Sacerdote, “The Nature and Nurture
of Economic Outcomes.”
6. PERFECT PARENTING, PART II; OR: WOULD A ROSHANDA BY ANY OTHER
NAME SMELL AS SWEET?
THE STORY OF LOSER LANE: Drawn from author interviews and from Sean
Gardiner, “Winner and Loser: Names Don’t Decide Destiny,” Newsday, July 22, 2002.
THE JUDGE AND THE TEMPTRESS: Based on author interviews.
ROLAND G. FRYER AND THE STUDY OF BLACK UNDERACHIEVEMENT:
Drawn from author interviews.
THE BLACK-WHITE CIGARETTE GAP: See Lloyd Johnston, Patrick O’Malley, Jerald
Bachman, and John Schulenberg, “Cigarette Brand Preferences Among Adolescents,”
Monitoring the Future Occasional Paper 45, Institute for Social Research, University of
Michigan, 1999.
BLACK NAMES (AND OTHER BLACK-WHITE CULTURE GAPS): See Roland G.
Fryer Jr. and Steven D. Levitt, “The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black
Names,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 119, no. 3 (August 2004), pp. 767–805.
“WHITE” RÉSUMÉS BEATING OUT “BLACK” RÉSUMÉS: The most recent audit
study to reach such a conclusion is Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan, “Are
Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment
Evidence on Labor Market Discrimination,” National Bureau of Economic Research
working paper, 2003.
YO XING HEYNO AUGUSTUS EISNER ALEXANDER WEISER KNUCKLES
JEREMIJENKO-CONLEY: See Tara Bahrampour, “A Boy Named Yo, Etc.: Name
Changes, Both Practical and Fanciful, Are on the Rise,” New York Times, September 25,
2003.
MICHAEL GOLDBERG, INDIAN-BORN SIKH: See Robert F. Worth, “Livery Driver
Is Wounded in a Shooting,” New York Times, February 9, 2004.