Be careful how you name your children…
Written By: The Homo Economicus on October 22, 2009
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The names people have are endogenous: A new study in Germany shows evidence of teachers discriminating their students based on their name! You can access the study here.
Is this result very strong? Well, I don’t know. But one possibility is that are certain names more predominant among wealthier sectors of society, which usually have a higher correlation with better scores (because of better nutrition, and better parents schooling indicators). However, still it is an interesting fact.
My name is Dany Bahar. I am currently an MPA/ID student at Harvard Kennedy School of Government (class of 2010), and an alumni of the MA in Economics program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem... 
Hi Dany,
This is very interesting. Can you conclude that having one “type” of name is going to be at your favor in life? If these is true, someone should publish these list and with it the world would be a better place.
I bet that even if science probe these to be right, there would still be people given their children a different name that´s out of the list.
Crazy world.
Daniel