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Socioeconomic Determinants of First Names [PDF]
Names, 2011 AbstractModern naming practices in the Netherlands between 1982 and 2005 were studied on the basis of 1409 popular first names, divided into fourteen name groups determined by the common preferences of parents for the names involved. Socioeconomic variables such as family income, parents' level of education, and lifestyle indicators were analyzed in ...
Bloothooft, G., Onland, D
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Demographic Aspects of First Names [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015 AbstractWe introduce a list that offers information on the relation between first names and race or ethnicity. Drawing information from mortgage applications, the list includes 4,250 first names and information on their respective count and proportions across six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups.
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Implicit Bias and First Name Stereotypes: What are the Implications for Online Instruction?
, 2015 The online classroom is perceived as being a non-threatening, unbiased, safe environment due to the lack of visual cues that normally trigger hidden attitudes and biases.
W. Conaway, Sonja Bethune
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Using First Name Information to Improve Race and Ethnicity Classification
, 2018 This article uses a recent first name list to develop an improvement to an existing Bayesian classifier, namely the Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG) method, which combines surname and geography information to impute missing race/ethnicity.
Ioan Voicu
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Performance of gender detection tools: a comparative study of name-to-gender inference services
Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2021 Objective: To evaluate the performance of gender detection tools that allow the uploading of files (e.g., Excel or CSV files) containing first names, are usable by researchers without advanced computer skills, and are at least partially free of charge ...
P. Sebo
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Studia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej, 2020 Main Trends in the Study of Ukrainian Surnames (Late Seventeenth – Early Twenty-First Centuries): I. The Achievements of Ukrainian Onomasticians This article analyses main trends in the study of Ukrainian surnames from the period between the late ...
Наталія [Nataliia] Богданівна [Bohdanivna] Вирста [Vyrsta] +1 more
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NamesData from the UK Local BMD, a volunteer project to transcribe the birth, marriage and death records of England and Wales, is a rare onomastic resource, being one of the few public datasets to contain full names.
Stephen J. Bush
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Race and ethnicity data for first, middle, and surnames
Scientific Data, 2023 We provide the largest compiled publicly available dictionaries of first, middle, and surnames for the purpose of imputing race and ethnicity using, for example, Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG). The dictionaries are based on the voter files of
Evan T. R. Rosenman +2 more
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The “internationalization” of first names: Gorani people in Belgrade and Germans in Vojvodina
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016 The paper considers the social practice of giving and using first names among Gorani people in Belgrade and Germans in Vojvodina in the late 20th and the beginning of the 21st century.
Jadranka Đorđević-Crnobrnja +1 more
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Naming names: the first women taxonomists in mycology
Studies in Mycology, 2018 The transition from amateur to professional in natural history is generally regarded as having taken place in the nineteenth century, but landmark events such as the 1917 appointment of mycologist Johanna Westerdijk (1883–1961) as the first female professor in the Netherlands indicate that the pattern of change for women was more varied and delayed ...
Maroske, Sara, May, Tom W.
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