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An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White'
Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2005
There is a debate among social scientists regarding the existence of a peer externality commonly referred to as 'acting white.' Using a newly available data set (the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health), which allows one to construct an objective measure of a student's popularity,...
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Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement : A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights
Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2015
This article describes a randomized field experiment in which parents were provided financial incentives to engage in behaviors designed to increase early childhood cognitive and executive function skills through a parent academy. Parents were rewarded for attendance at early childhood sessions,...
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An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics
Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2009
We document and analyze the emergence of a substantial gender gap in mathematics in the early years of schooling using … score gap that appears over these same ages. We document the presence of this gender math gap across every strata of society …, we find that earlier results linking the gender gap in math to measures of gender equality are sensitive to the inclusion …
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