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It was about five years ago that I first started noticing the name Eunji Kim on some interesting research. Best dissertation, best paper, best article — she seemed to be winning them all. In her ...

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About the author: Alexis Crow is the chief economist at PricewaterhouseCoopers U.S. She is a senior fellow at Columbia Business School and a Young Global Leader in the World Economic Forum. We are in ...

Does living in an unequal society make people unhappy? Not necessarily, reveals the largest study ever conducted on the ...