The importance of segregation, discrimination, peer dynamics, and identity in explaining trends in the racial achievement gap
By: Roland G. Fryer, Jr
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16257; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16257.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: "After decades of narrowing, the achievement gap between black and white school children widened in the 1990s - a period when the labor market rewards for education were increasing.  This presents an important puzzle for economists.  In this chapter, I investigate the extent to which economic models of segregation, information-based discrimination, peer dynamics, and identity can explain this puzzle.  Under a reasonable set of assumptions, models of peer dynamics and identity are consistent with the time-series data.  Segregation and models of discrimination both contradict the trends in important ways"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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