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...Acting white’ very well may explain the lack of minority students in elite colleges and universities,” Fryer said...
...Fryer said that, in one important way, the study undermines conventional wisdom on the phenomenon...
African-American students in schools with high interracial contact may feel greater social pressure to sacrifice their grades in order to maintain popularity than students in predominantly African-American schools, according to a paper published last month by Harvard economist Roland G. Fryer Jr. and graduate student Paul Torelli...
...Fryer and Torelli also found that while African Americans are often suspected of suffering the most from “acting white,” Hispanic students often face even more social pressure to underperform in class than do black students...
Levitt, along with Roland G. Fryer, an economist at Harvard’s Society of Fellows, examined large data sets to find that a baby’s name has less of an influence on his life prospects than earlier studies suggested. Sure, Temptress turned out to be a bit of a tramp, but Loser Williams grew up to be far more successful than his older brother Winner...