Roland Fryer
Professor of Economics, Harvard University. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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A MacArthur Fellow and John Bates Clark Medal winner, Fryer is widely recognized for his empirical research on racial disparities, education reform, and police use of force. He co-founded Sigma Squared and the venture firm Equal Opportunity Ventures.
1shows
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12statements
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0contradicted
71%fully supported
16said about them ↓ Everything Roland Fryer said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Fryer: Police Study Found Racial Bias in Non-Lethal Force, None in Shootings
“And what we found was that on the lower level uses of force, there are racial differences that we couldn't explain. And we put them through formal bias test, and there is bias that goes on in the lower level uses of force. What we didn't find was any, that tha…”
Fryer: K-12 education matters more than workplace regulation for racial equality
“Well, their results would say, look, if 80% of the effect is happening before people ever hit the market, that means we need to spend more time in K through 12 education.”
Fryer: Disparities in test scores should not cause standardized tests to be thrown out
“It's not whether or not there's a disparity in the test scores that, that should cause you to throw out the test.”
Fryer: Pure meritocracy yields both higher productivity and diversity by eliminating bias
“If companies have bias, then
Meritocracy is completely consistent with a DEI strategy.
Because what you, because if you're getting to your talent frontier and you have bias, you're removing that bias and you're saying, look, I'm just going to hire the best p…”
Fryer: Paying students for inputs like homework was wildly successful
“When we paid kids to, so we did two types of experiments. One, we paid them for inputs, right? So we paid them to do specific behaviors or accomplish very specific things that we wanted them to do. Do your homework. Come to school. Don't beat people up. Stuff …”
Fryer: Paying students for academic outputs produced zero results
“On the other hand, when we designed experiments exactly as economic theory thought we should, which is you pay for the actual output, not the input, we got nothing.”
Fryer: Houston charter-practice experiment closed the racial math achievement gap
“We took those five things and we put them in a randomized experiment in Houston in the worst 20 schools there.
And what we showed was that
In three years in the secondary schools, you could close, ah, the racial achievement gap in math, and in five to seven ye…”
Fryer: Pre-market skills account for most Black-white wage disparity
“And what they found out was that that 33% went down to seven percent.”
Fryer: Black-White Median Wage Gap Is Unchanged Since 1950
“If you have the 90th percentile, there's been a lot of convergence between blacks and whites in the last 30 or 40 years, right? But if you're at the median, there's been no, the black white wage gap at the median is the same today as it was in 1950.”
Fryer: Economics neglected equal opportunity in favor of silly topics
“What I noticed was these tools were beautiful, but used for silly things. And the things that were most important for American optimism like how do people get jobs that are equated with their skill level? How do you actually make true equal opportunity in Amer…”
Fryer: Five practices explain 50% of charter school performance variance
“We went around to
charter schools, some successful and some not, and we used their flexibility and their natural variation in their policies and how they, what they do with kids and their pedagogy, et cetera, to extract from that five things that explain 50% …”
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Lonsdale: Claudine Gay targeted Roland Fryer over police violence research
“And of course, Clyde and Gay, who at the time wasn't even president yet, but she was like a big internal African-American woman activists at Harvard. She went after him and she found a former student who, and she got the former student from like 10 years ago t…”
Liemandt: Paying students directly is the most effective educational incentive
“Yeah. No, paying the kids is by far the most effective way to do it. And you can get, you know, big effect size on, on doing this. It really works.”
Lonsdale: Roland Fryer's research showed paying students for good grades worked best
“So one of his studies he did a long time ago was, he comes from the inner city himself as a black man, and he went to these Kids who were underperforming, and he tried to test what interventions would work, and it turned out, after trying lots of things, actua…”
Lonsdale: Paying Students for Good Grades Was Roland Fryer's Top Intervention
“It was to pay them for great grades. And the reason was, is it turned out that a lot of these poor communities, the kids don't actually care about their grades or their school because they think it doesn't matter.”
Lonsdale: Roland Fryer found paying students for grades outperformed smaller classes
“He tested all these different things, like what, where they use the money best, and there's one thing is, like, people say smaller class sizes matter, and he tested all of it, and the thing he found in these poor inner cities that actually had the biggest impa…”
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| AMERICAN OPTIMISTLEDGER | Professor of Economics, Harvard University | 1 | 12 | 71% 5/7 | full record on American Optimist → |