Roland G. Fryer, Jr.
| Roland Gerhard Fryer Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 4, 1977 Daytona Beach, Florida |
| Nationality | American |
| Institution | Harvard University |
| Field | Social economics, political economics |
| School or tradition |
Chicago School of Economics |
| Alma mater |
University of Texas at Arlington Pennsylvania State University |
| Doctoral advisor |
Tomas Sjöström |
| Influences |
Gary Becker Steven Levitt Glenn Loury |
| Awards |
MacArthur Fellowship (2011) Calvó-Armengol International Prize (2012) John Bates Clark Medal (2015) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Roland Gerhard Fryer Jr. (born June 4, 1977) is an American economist and the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University.
He also maintains offices at the National Bureau of Economic Research and W. E. B. Du Bois Institute. In 2007, at age 30, he became the youngest African-American to ever receive tenure at Harvard. He was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow and received the 2015 John Bates Clark Medal. Fryer is widely regarded to be one of black America and Harvard's rising stars, having published numerous economics-related papers in prominent academic journals over the past few years.The New York Times ran an extensive profile of Fryer, entitled "Toward a Unified Theory of Black America," in March 2005 that dealt extensively with Fryer's rough upbringing: Fryer's mother left when he was very young, and his father, who beat his son, was convicted of rape, effectively leaving Fryer to fend for himself. Fryer became a "full fledged gangster by his teens".
Fryer grew up in Lewisville, Texas, where he had moved with his abusive father at the age of 4. Attending Lewisville High School, he starred in football and basketball, earning an athletic scholarship from the University of Texas at Arlington. However, he never actually played for the Texas–Arlington Mavericks; instead he decided to embrace academics, joining the Honors College, whose dean helped find him an academic scholarship. He graduated magna cum laude in 1998 after two and a half years while holding down a full-time job. Fryer completed his Ph.D. in economics from Penn State in 2002. He also conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago with economist Gary Becker. Fryer has collaborated with several other academics, including Steven Levitt, the University of Chicago economist and author of Freakonomics, Glenn Loury, a Brown University economist, and Edward Glaeser, an urban economist at Harvard.
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