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122. How Much Does Your Name Matter?

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Does Your Name Matter for the Economic Life That You End Up Leading?

The name that you were given at birth seems not to matter at all to your economic life. Are people who are saddled with distinctively black names facing a burden when they enter the labor market? "We certainly don't know everything about them, but we know certain things about them"

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