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Hello, My Name Is Marijuana Pepsi!

Research shows that having a distinctively black name doesn’t affect your economic future. But what is the day-to-day reality of living with such a name? Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck, a newly-minted PhD, is well qualified to answer this question. Her verdict: The data don’t tell the whole story.

Stephen J. Dubner/ Freakonomics Radio
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8 min readAug 19, 2019

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Stephen J. Dubner/ Freakonomics Radio
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Stephen J. Dubner is co-author of the Freakonomics books and host of Freakonomics Radio.