A Scholar to Keep Your Eye On
…and anthropology. Like our friend Roland Fryer, Kaba is a black scholar who studies a lot of racial issues with a perspective and a latitude that is unavailable to white…
…and anthropology. Like our friend Roland Fryer, Kaba is a black scholar who studies a lot of racial issues with a perspective and a latitude that is unavailable to white…
What’s it like to grow up with one parent who is black and another who is white? In a recent paper I co-authored with Roland Fryer, Lisa Kahn, and Jorg…
…trails white America by too wide a margin in too many of these categories. (The young Harvard economist Roland Fryer also studies what he calls “black underachievement,” and has also…
…Roland Fryer has experimented and written widely about bribing students (and teachers), and has been both praised and lambasted for it. This is one of those issues that most people…
…talk about our ideas and they also featured the work of Sudhir Venkatesh, Roland Fryer, John List, and Keith Chen, any one of whom could have held down their own…
(Digital Vision) It was great to see some familiar names on this year’s list of MacArthur “genius” awards. They include Roland Fryer of Harvard, who has shown up many times…
…friend Roland Fryer, the new “chief equality officer” of New York schools, is on a lifelong mission to shrink the black-white achievement gap. At least blacks are on the right…
…about sumo cheating: Spurlock’s is about the black-white baby-name divide, and the black-white divide in general (that’s Roland Fryer below): Jarecki does abortion/crime. Ewing and Grady do pay-for-grades school incentives….
…on drugs, written for a general audience on the Becker-Posner blog. Roland Fryer, Paul Heaton, Kevin Murphy, and I have written an academic article on the impact of crack cocaine….
…to Seton Hall University as a basketball player and, several degrees later, has returned as an assistant professor of sociology and anthropology. Like our friend Roland Fryer, Kaba is a…
…lack of potential buyers: the Wall Street Journal reports on how the recession is damaging bling culture. (Whatever happened to Roland Fryer‘s paper that was to be called “Bling-Bling”?) [%comments]…
…example, we learned a huge amount about the impact of racial characteristics, in their case, names, from the excellent study by our own Steve Levitt and his coauthor Roland Fryer….
…those in the running. As I write this, my friend Roland Fryer is ranked 38th. Ben Bernanke is at 133, Tim Geithner is at 152 (does he count as an…
…Chicago Heights teachers a chance to earn an extra bonus. The experiment was conducted with Roland Fryer, Steven Levitt, and Sally Sadoff. In one treatment, teachers could earn up to…
The black-white gap in U.S. education is an issue that continues to occupy the efforts of a great many scholars. Roland Fryer and Steve Levitt have poked at the issue…
ABC repeats Roland Fryer’s resume experiment and finds that “white-sounding names were actually downloaded 17 percent more often by job recruiters.” Groupon offer: a baby name for just $1,000. New…
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…
Does the future of food lie in its past — or inside a tank of liquid nitrogen? Also: how anti-social can you be on a social network? This is a…
The “molecular gastronomy” movement — which gets a bump in visibility next month with the publication of the mammoth cookbook “Modernist Cuisine” — is all about bringing more science into…
He’s a pioneer of using randomized control experiments in economics — studying the long-term benefits of a $1 health intervention in Africa. Steve asks Edward, a Berkeley professor, about Africa’s…
In this special crossover episode, People I (Mostly) Admire host Steve Levitt admits to No Stupid Questions co-host Angela Duckworth that he knows almost nothing about psychology. But once Angela…
She’s the author of the bestselling book Grit, and a University of Pennsylvania professor of psychology — a field Steve says he knows nothing about. But once Angela gives Steve…
…Implications of Outcomes When Home Sellers Use Flat-Fee Real Estate Agents,” Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, 2008. Roland G. Fryer, Steven D. Levitt, and John A. List, “Exploring the Impact…
Dubner and Levitt talk about fixing the post office, putting cameras in the classroom, and wearing hats.
…Bureau of Economic Research working paper, 2003; Roland G. Fryer Jr., Paul Heaton, Steven D. Levitt, and Kevin Murphy, “The Impact of Crack Cocaine,” University of Chicago working paper, 2005….
Turkey sex and chicken wings, selling souls and swapping organs, the power of the president and the price of wine: these are a few of our favorite things
Climbing the corporate ladder to become head of Nike’s Jordan brand, he kept his teenage murder conviction a secret from employers. Larry talks about living in fear, accepting forgiveness, and…
Economists have discovered an odd phenomenon: many people who use social media (even you, maybe?) wish it didn’t exist. But that doesn’t mean they can escape….
In a new working paper, Roland Benabou, Davide Ticchi, and Andrea Vindigni follow up their earlier paper which found “a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita.” Their…
Are things as dire as they seem? How big is your moral circle? And should Angela spend time with her kids or answer her emails?…
