Goldin, Claudia; Shim, Maria - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2001
.,' among other factors, spurred surname retention among married women in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This paper tracks the … correlates of surname retention. We use two decades of data from The New York Times and twenty years of information on the … Harvard class of 1980. A time series on surname retention at marriage for college graduate women, gleaned from wedding …
