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122. How Much Does Your Name Matter?

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The Importance of Names in Economic Life

The name you were given at birth does not seem to matter at all to your economic life. Different kinds of parents, of course, choose different kinds of names. At Harvard, Latanya Sweeney studies how technology can help solve society's problems. In the course of doing so, she occasionally discovers a new problem.

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