Roland G. Fryer | Free Black Thought

It’s time for data-first diversity, equity, and inclusion

The average impact of corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training is zero and some evidence suggests that the impact can become negative if the training is mandated. [...] Our intuition for how to decrease race and gender disparities in the...

20 June, 2022

Roland G. Fryer

Affirmative Action

Affirmative action in college admissions doesn’t work — but it could

I benefited greatly from affirmative action. I very much hope my children will not — because the current system contains significant weaknesses. The fate of the American Dream depends on reforming it to make it work.

On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in an affirmative...

1 January, 2022

Roland G. Fryer

Education

Injecting Charter School Best Practices into Traditional PublicSchools:Evidence From Field Experiments

This study examines the impact on student achievement of implementing a bundle of best practices from high-performing charter schools into low-performing, traditional public schools in Houston, Texas using a school-level randomized field experiment and quasi-experimental comparisons

1 April, 2014

Roland G. Fryer

Education

Learning from the Successes and Failures of Charter Schools

We examine charter schools across the quality spectrum in order to learn which practices separate high-achieving from low-achieving schools. An expansive data collection and analysis project in New York City charter schools yielded an index of five educational practices that explains nearly half...

1 September, 2012

Roland G. Fryer

Academia

An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White'

Using a newly available data set, which allows one to construct a novel measure of a student’s social status, we demonstrate that there are potentially important racial differences in the relationship between social status and academic achievement. The effect is intensified among students with a...

1 July, 2009

Roland G. Fryer

Economics

Guess Who's Been Coming to Dinner? Trends in Interracial Marriage over the 20th Century

Guess Who's Been Coming to Dinner? Trends in Interracial Marriage over the 20th Century by Roland G. Fryer Jr.. Published in volume 21, issue 2, pages 71-90 of Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2007, Abstract: This paper studies marriages across black, white, and Asian racial lines....

18 June, 2007

Roland G. Fryer

Economics

"Acting White"

Acting white was once a label used by scholars, writing in obscure journals, to characterize academically inclined, but allegedly snobbish, minority students who were shunned by their peers.

22 June, 2006

Roland G. Fryer

Affirmative Action

(With Loury, Glenn.) Affirmative Action and Its Mythology

For more than three decades, critics and supporters of affirmative action have fought for the moral high ground through ballot initiatives and lawsuits, in state legislatures, and in varied courts of public opinion. The goal of this paper is to show the clarifying power of economic reasoning to...

31 July, 2005

Roland G. Fryer , Glenn C. Loury

Economics

The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names

In the 1960s Blacks and Whites chose relatively similar first names for their children. The patterns in the data appear most consistent with a model in which the rise of the Black Power movement influenced how Blacks perceived their identities. We find, however, no negative relationship between...

1 August, 2004

Roland G. Fryer

Roland G. Fryer, Jr.

It’s time for data-first diversity, equity, and inclusion

Affirmative action in college admissions doesn’t work — but it could

Injecting Charter School Best Practices into Traditional PublicSchools:Evidence From Field Experiments

Learning from the Successes and Failures of Charter Schools

An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White'

Guess Who's Been Coming to Dinner? Trends in Interracial Marriage over the 20th Century

"Acting White"

(With Loury, Glenn.) Affirmative Action and Its Mythology

The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names

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