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Wednesday, April 13, 2005

A Roshanda by Any Other Name: How do babies with super-black names fare?

A Roshanda by Any Other Name - How do babies with super-black names fare? By�Steven D.�Levitt�and Stephen J.�Dubner
Which is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool? How much does campaign spending really matter? What truly made crime fall in the 1990s? These are the sort of questions raised—and answered—in the new book Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. In today's excerpt, the first of two, authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner explore the impact of a child's first name, particularly a distinctively black name.