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D-Index
55
Citations
17686
World Ranking
1978
National Ranking
949

Roland G. Fryer publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Roland G. Fryer sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 122 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Roland G. Fryer D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Roland G. Fryer sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 55 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2011 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 2007 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Roland G. Fryer is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the social sciences and medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields including education, orthopedics and sports medicine, demography, political science and international relations, and health.

Fryer's recent scholarly output covers a range of topics and has been published in several academic venues. Notable papers include:

  • Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes among Adolescents (2023, American Economic Review)
  • An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force: A Response (2020, Journal of Political Economy)
  • Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Framing: A Field Experiment (2022, American Economic Journal Economic Policy)
  • Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • National Running Club Database: Assessing Collegiate Club Athletes' Cross Country Race Results (2025, arXiv (Cornell University))

Their research topics include but are not limited to:

  • School Choice and Performance
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities
  • Policing Practices and Perceptions
  • Gun Ownership and Violence Research
  • Innovations in Educational Methods
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Fryer are:

  • Steven D. Levitt
  • John A. List
  • Jonathan Guryan
  • Jens Ludwig
  • Monica Bhatt

Their publication record includes contributions to several prominent journals, with repeated publications in:

  • American Economic Review
  • Journal of Political Economy
  • American Economic Journal Economic Policy
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Fryer's recognition in the academic community is reflected in several fellowships, including:

  • Fellows of the Econometric Society (2018)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015)
  • Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation (2011)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2007)

Best Publications

  • Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School

    Roland G. Fryer;Steven D. Levitt

  • The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names

    Roland G. Fryer;Steven D. Levitt

  • An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics

    Roland G Fryer;Steven D Levitt

  • An empirical analysis of ‘acting white’

    Roland G. Fryer;Roland G. Fryer;Paul Torelli

  • Financial Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from Randomized Trials

    Roland G. Fryer

  • Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment

    Roland Fryer;Steven Levitt;John List;Sally Sadoff

  • An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force

    Roland G Fryer

  • Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools: Evidence From New York City †

    Will Dobbie;Roland G Fryer

  • Teacher Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from New York City Public Schools

    Roland G. Fryer

  • The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade

    Roland G. Fryer;Steven D. Levitt

  • Are High-Quality Schools Enough to Increase Achievement Among the Poor? Evidence from the Harlem Children's Zone †

    Will Dobbie;Roland G. Fryer Jr.

  • An Economic Analysis of “Acting White”

    David Austen-Smith;Roland G. Fryer

  • Injecting Charter School Best Practices into Traditional Public Schools: Evidence from Field Experiments

    Roland G. Fryer

  • A Measure of Segregation Based on Social Interactions

    Federico Echenique;Roland G. Fryer

  • Guess Who's Been Coming to Dinner? Trends in Interracial Marriage over the 20th Century

    Roland G Fryer

  • Affirmative Action and Its Mythology

    Roland G Fryer;Glenn C Loury

  • A Categorical Model of Cognition and Biased Decision Making

    Roland Fryer;Matthew O. Jackson

  • The (Surprising) Efficacy of Academic and Behavioral Intervention with Disadvantaged Youth: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Chicago

    Philip J Cook;Kenneth Dodge;George Farkas;Roland G Fryer

  • "Acting White": The Social Price Paid by the Best and Brightest Minority Students

    Roland G. Fryer

  • MEASURING THE IMPACT OF CRACK COCAINE

    Roland G Fryer;Paul S Heaton;Steven D Levitt;Kevin M Murphy

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurence Steinberg
Laurence Steinberg Temple University
George Farkas
George Farkas University of California, Irvine
Kenneth A. Dodge
Kenneth A. Dodge Duke University
Harold A. Pollack
Harold A. Pollack University of Chicago

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