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When the idea of a good career fails to provide enough encouragement for students to do well in school, will money do the trick? Assistant Professor of Economics Roland G. Fryer certainly thinks so, and that idea forms the basis for an incentive-based program he will test in New York City public schools in the upcoming school year...
...Harvard, Fryer, who is an associate professor of economics, has set up what he calls the “American Inequality Lab,” which is “a place to pull together all of the stuff I’ve done since graduate school.” He explains that while many academics study conditions in developing countries in Africa, Asia, and around the world, few scholars devote their time to studying poverty issues in America...
...Many of these experiments are actually being performed in Boston, which Fryer says gives the projects a special relevance to Harvard. The main goal in every project is to focus on inequality in a scientific way, divorcing the data from its controversial racial implications in order to objectively analyze...
...Right now, Fryer is working on a project where students from disadvantaged backgrounds are randomly selected to receive SAT classes in order to determine to what extent high standardized test scores are correlated with preparation opportunities...
...undergraduates are just a special breed of something—smart, hardworking, Red Bull-popping,” Fryer jokes. “I don’t like to admit how much I learn from my undergraduates. My discoveries are at chalkboards with undergraduates...