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Both studies have their shortcomings: the California records give only broad indicators of economic achievement, and studying whose résumés elicit callbacks doesn't show who ultimately gets the jobs or what they do once employed.
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This is what I was thinking when reading this article - I would have thought that if an employer was going to be biased on the basis of race then if Mary the black woman rocked up for her interview she wouldn't get hired anyway. Whatever reason she didn't get a callback because her name was Vonnessa could be made if her name was Mary and she got an interview surely.
Timber, might I suggest
Puritan names for your kids? More-fruit has a certain resonance
