‘Acting White’ Is Old School
Economist Roland Fryer has done research on “acting white,” i.e. the phenomenon by which black children who excel academically are stigmatized by their peers. Recently, he was in a New…
Economist Roland Fryer has done research on “acting white,” i.e. the phenomenon by which black children who excel academically are stigmatized by their peers. Recently, he was in a New…
My good friend Roland Fryer has taken as his life’s mission to understand every aspect of the economic life of Blacks in America. His latest research, co-authored with another good…
In research with Roland Fryer, later written up in Freakonomics, we asked the question “Does the name you give your child matter for her life outcome?” (I say “her” because…
…received $10 million from hedge funder Kenneth Griffin to track the performance of 600 students, including 150 at the Griffin Early Childhood Center. Along with Levitt and Roland Fryer, List…
Our last Freakonomics column was about the indirect approach that Roland Fryer, Paul Heaton, Kevin Murphy, and I used to try to measure crack cocaine use across places and over…
As you may have read on this blog, the economist Roland Fryer has done quite a bit of research on bribing kids — i.e., offering financial rewards for good grades….
Hats off to economist Roland Fryer, Joel Klein, the rest of the folks in the New York City Department of Education, and Droga5 for taking home the Titanium Lion prize…
…for the older students. It is remarkable how offended people get when you pay students for doing well – so many negative emails and comments. Roland Fryer endured the same…
Roland Fryer continues to work with incentives in education — for students, parents, and teachers. His newest working paper (gated) describes an experiment in New York City that was unsuccessful…
Roland G. Fryer Jr. is a young black economist at Harvard whose work and background are equally fascinating. (At least I think so.) He and Steve Levitt have written a…
…fear of being the guy who holds back the rest of the group is probably a stronger motivation than anything. The economist Roland Fryer tested this idea not long ago…
…of these truths can be uncomfortable. After I wrote about Roland Fryer, he was assailed by fellow black scholars for having underplayed the degree to which racism afflicts black Americans….
…some scholars (including Roland Fryer) have argued that one factor in the black-white education gap is the “acting white” phenomenon, in which some students, as Fryer and David Austen-Smith wrote:…
How much can you tell about someone from the first few seconds of a Zoom call? What did Stephen think of Angie when he first met her? And: a special…
Read the Column » Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine By Roland G. Fryer, Jr., Paul S. Heaton, Steven D. Levitt, Kevin M. Murphy An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling…
Roland Fryer is a very enterprising young economist at Harvard whose early work, much of it in collaboration with Steve Levitt, is featured in Freakonomics. Roland’s creativity is not limited…
…gave a phone number; only 10% of the non-touched said yes. Courtesy of Harvard economics professor Roland Fryer: Forbes.com profiles the newest trends in ultra-expensive baby gear, including a pacifier…
Think you know how much parents matter? Think again. Economists crunch the numbers to learn the ROI on child-rearing.
Talithia Williams thinks you should rigorously track your body’s data. She and Steve Levitt trade birth stories and bemoan the state of STEM education….
From baseball card conventions to Walmart, John List has always used field experiments to say revolutionary things about economics. He explains the value of an apology, why scaling shouldn’t be…
The pandemic has hit America’s biggest city particularly hard. Amidst a deep fiscal hole, rising homicides, and a flight to the suburbs, some people think the city is heading back…
Think you know how much parents matter? Think again. Economists crunch the numbers to learn the ROI on child-rearing.
…snag a little air time in the latest rundown of the new generation of economic talent. It is wonderful to see my friend and co-author Roland Fryer on the list…
…findings of my academic research with Roland Fryer, which found no impact of a child’s name on her life. Now, from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, we have the story of three…
…be too difficult. Some of my academic research with Roland Fryer has made clear to me the stark choices that black teens, especially boys, have to make about “who they…
…Levitt response to Ted Joyce, and now in a recent paper by Roland Fryer, Paul Heaton, me, and Kevin Murphy. The key points I mentioned in Slate five years ago…
…Substantial racial test score gaps are found as early as age five. Roland Fryer and I have written two papers on racial differences in test scores in the past (see…
…us on only because we know Roland Fryer — and then a pair of lectures, first at the Milken Institute in Santa Monica and then at the legendary (so we…
…in America on the back page of the magazine called “Pick One” written by David Matthews. My friend and co-author Roland Fryer continues to think hard about these issues also….
…should be bad at math. I’ve always been skeptical of these results (and indeed failed to replicate them in one study I did with Roland Fryer and John List) because…