Roland Fryer: 2015 John Bates Clark Medalist

摘要

As this review of his work illustrated, Roland Fryer has shown an extraordinary willingness and ability to master tools from many disciplines to use the most appropriate scientific methodology available to tackle research topics that help illuminate racial inequality and policies to address it. For example, he has designed, implemented, and analyzed large-scale field experiments in low-income urban schools and neighborhoods. Much of this work is done through EdLabs, the Education Innovation Laboratory at Harvard University, which Roland founded in 2008 and where he continues as its director. He has employed a wide variety of other approaches as well, ranging from historical archival research to alternative credible identification strategies including regression-discontinuity designs. He also has done pathbreaking theoretical work on the economics of affirmative action, models of peer effects, and the measurement of segregation.