Roland G. Fryer Jr.

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Roland G. Fryer Jr.

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#3231

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Roland G. Fryer Jr.'s Degrees

PhD Economics Pennsylvania State University

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According to Wikipedia, Roland Gerhard Fryer Jr. is an American economist and professor at Harvard University. Following a difficult childhood, Fryer earned an athletic scholarship to the University of Texas at Arlington, but once there chose to concentrate instead on academics. Graduating cum laude in years, he went on to receive a Ph.D. in economics from Pennsylvania State University in 2002 and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago with Gary Becker. He joined the faculty of Harvard University and rapidly rose through the academic ranks; in 2007, at age 30, he became the second-youngest professor, and the youngest African-American, ever to be awarded tenure at Harvard. He has received numerous awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 2011 and the John Bates Clark Medal in 2015.

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Roland G. Fryer Jr.'s Published Works

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Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School (2002) (1067)
The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names (2003) (571)
Are High-Quality Schools Enough to Increase Achievement Among the Poor? Evidence from the Harlem Children's Zone † (2011) (548)
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics (2009) (482)
The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade (2005) (467)
An Economic Analysis of “Acting White” (2005) (442)
Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools: Evidence from New York City (2011) (427)
Teacher Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from New York City Public Schools (2011) (367)
An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force (2016) (289)
A Measure of Segregation Based on Social Interactions (2007) (261)
Injecting Charter School Best Practices into Traditional Public Schools: Evidence from Field Experiments (2014) (240)
Are High Quality Schools Enough to Close the Achievement Gap? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Harlem (2009) (226)
Guess Who's Been Coming to Dinner? Trends in Interracial Marriage over the 20th Century (2007) (210)
A Categorical Model of Cognition and Biased Decision Making (2008) (185)
Affirmative Action and its Mythology (2005) (148)
Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children (2006) (135)
An Economic Analysis of Color-Blind Affirmative Action (2007) (127)
Career and Family Lifecycles of the Educational Elite (2008) (126)
The Impact of Attending a School with High-Achieving Peers: Evidence from New York City Exam Schools (2014) (126)
Measuring Crack Cocaine and its Impact (2013) (124)
The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries: Evidence from 196 Randomized Field Experiments (2016) (122)
Racial Inequality in the 21st Century: The Declining Significance of Discrimination (2010) (120)
Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine (2005) (109)
The Potential of Urban Boarding Schools for the Poor: Evidence from SEED (2014) (108)
"Acting White": The Social Price Paid by the Best and Brightest Minority Students (2006) (108)
The (Surprising) Efficacy of Academic and Behavioral Intervention with Disadvantaged Youth: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Chicago (2014) (97)
Belief Flipping in a Dynamic Model of Statistical Discrimination (2006) (93)
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics1 (2010) (91)
Updating Beliefs When Evidence Is Open to Interpretation: Implications for Bias and Polarization (2018) (90)
Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights (2015) (87)
Racial Disparities in Job Finding and Offered Wages (2011) (86)
Valuing Diversity (2013) (85)
Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from Psychology and Economics (2006) (84)
Racial Inequality in the 21st Century: The Declining Significance of Discrimination. NBER Working Paper No. 16256. (2010) (79)
Exam High Schools and Academic Achievement: Evidence from New York City (2011) (68)
Is School Segregation Good or Bad (2006) (68)
Achieving Escape Velocity: Neighborhood and School Interventions to Reduce Persistent Inequality (2013) (64)
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study (2008) (62)
Injecting Successful Charter School Strategies into Traditional Public Schools: Early Results from an Experiment in Houston * (2012) (58)
The Medium-Term Impacts of High-Achieving Charter Schools on Non-Test Score Outcomes (2013) (57)
Financial Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from Randomized Trials. NBER Working Paper No. 15898. (2010) (55)
Charter Schools and Labor Market Outcomes (2016) (53)
Management and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment (2017) (49)
Information and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Cellular Phone Experiment (2013) (49)
Self-Selection and Comparative Advantage in Social Interactions (2017) (47)
The Causes and Consequences of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (2007) (46)
On the Measurement of Segregation (2005) (44)
Experience-Based Discrimination: Classroom Games (2005) (44)
It May Not Take a Village: Increasing Achievement Among the Poor (2011) (43)
Information, non-financial incentives, and student achievement: Evidence from a text messaging experiment (2016) (43)
Affirmative action in winner-take-all markets (2005) (42)
An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force: A Response (2020) (40)
The Plight of Mixed-Race Adolescents (2008) (37)
Color-Blind Affirmative Action (2003) (36)
Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes for Disadvantaged Youth (WP-15-01) (2015) (35)
An Economic Approach to Cultural Capital (2003) (33)
The Power and Pitfalls of Education Incentives. Discussion Paper 2011-07. (2011) (31)
Updating Beliefs with Ambiguous Evidence: Implications for Polarization (2013) (31)
Estimating the Returns to Urban Boarding Schools: Evidence from Seed (2011) (31)
Hatred and Profits: Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan* (2012) (30)
Policing the Police: The Impact of "Pattern-or-Practice" Investigations on Crime (2020) (28)
A Model of Social Interactions and Endogenous Poverty Traps (2006) (27)
The Economics of 'Acting White' (2003) (26)
Falling Behind: New Evidence on the Black-White Achievement Gap. (2004) (24)
Injecting Successful Charter School Strategies into Traditional Public Schools: A Field Experiment in Houston (2011) (24)
Creating "No Excuses" (Traditional) Public Schools: Preliminary Evidence from an Experiment in Houston. NBER Working Paper No. 17494. (2011) (19)
Multitasking, Learning, and Incentives: A Cautionary Tale (2012) (18)
High-Dosage Tutoring and Reading Achievement: Evidence from New York City (2017) (18)
Vertical Versus Horizontal Incentives in Education: Evidence from Randomized Trials (2012) (17)
A Roy Model of Social Interactions (2011) (17)
The Impact of Youth Service on Future Outcomes: Evidence from Teach for America (2011) (17)
Aligning Student, Parent, and Teacher Incentives: Evidence from Houston Public Schools. NBER Working Paper No. 17752. (2012) (16)
The &Apos;Pupil&Apos; Factory: Specialization and the Production of Human Capital in Schools (2016) (16)
Two-Armed Restless Bandits with Imperfect Information: Stochastic Control and Indexability (2013) (14)
The “Pupil” Factory: Specialization and the Production of Human Capital in Schools † (2018) (14)
Reconciling Results on Racial Differences in Police Shootings (2018) (14)
Learning from the Successes and Failures of Charter Schools. Discussion Paper 2012-06. (2012) (13)
The Public-Housing Allocation Problem : Theory and Evidence from Pittsburgh (2016) (12)
Categorical Redistribution in Winner-Take-All Markets (2003) (11)
Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents (2021) (11)
The Causes and Consequences of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities. NBER Working Paper No. 13036. (2007) (10)
Introducing Cogx: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions (2020) (9)
Multitasking , Dynamic Complementarities , and Incentives : A Cautionary Tale (2013) (9)
Categorical cognition: a psychological model of categories and identification in decision making: extended abstract (2003) (8)
Experimental Studies of Discrimination (2002) (8)
A Roy Model of Social Interactions. NBER Working Paper No. 16880. (2011) (7)
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents. NBER Working Paper No. 14192. (2008) (7)
Valuing Identity : The Simple Economics of A ffi rmative Action Policies ∗ (2007) (7)
Discrimination : Evidence from Psychology and Economics Experiments (2005) (7)
Complementary Bias: A Model of Two-Sided Statistical Discrimination (2017) (6)
Experience-Based Discrimination (2001) (5)
Valuing Identity (2010) (5)
Injecting Charter School Best Practices into Traditional Public Schools: A Field Experiment in Houston (2013) (4)
Bobbing for Widgets: Compensating Wage Differentials (2005) (4)
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents (2008) (4)
Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan (2007) (4)
The Plight of Mixed Race Kids (2012) (3)
The Optimal Timing of Affirmative Action (2003) (3)
The (Surprising) Efficacy of Academic and Behavioral Intervention with Disadvantaged Youth from a Randomized Experiment in Chicago (WP-14-03) (2014) (2)
The Impact of Crack Cocaine (2004) (2)
A Comparative Advantage Theory of Social Interactions (2014) (2)
Color-Blind A ffi rmative Action (2003) (2)
4 Losing Ground at School (2005) (1)
SERIES ARE HIGH QUALITY SCHOOLS ENOUGH TO CLOSE THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP ? EVIDENCE FROM A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT IN HARLEM Will Dobbie (2009) (0)
The Market for Peers ∗ (2010) (0)
Extremely Preliminary and Incomplete Please do not cite without permission The Impact of Crack Cocaine (2004) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES TEACHER INCENTIVES AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT: EVIDENCE FROM NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (2011) (0)
American Economic Association Guess Who ' s Been Coming to Dinner ? Trends in Interracial Marriage over the 20 th Century (2008) (0)
The Optimal Timing of A ffi rmative Action ∗ (2003) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CREATING "NO EXCUSES" (TRADITIONAL) PUBLIC SCHOOLS: PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE FROM AN EXPERIMENT IN HOUSTON (2011) (0)
Injecting Successful Charter School Strategies into Traditional Public Schools: Evidence from Houston (2013) (0)
The University of Chicago The Booth School of Business of the University of Chicago The University of Chicago Law School Measuring the Compactness of Political Districting Plans (2012) (0)
Getting Beneath the Veil of Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from Three Cities (2018) (0)
1 CLASSROOM GAMES Experience-Based Discrimination (2003) (0)
Implicit Quotas The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2009) (0)

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