The Importance of Segregation, Discrimination, Peer Dynamics, and Identity in Explaining Trends in the Racial Achievement Gap
Organization: National Bureau of Economic Research
The report analyzes and investigates the reason for the achievement gap widening in the 1990's and in subsequent years. It seeks to understand how "economic models of segregation, information-based discrimination, peer dynamics, and identity" affect this gap and steps that can be undertaken to avoid it.
Citation
Fryer, R.G. (2010). The Importance of Segregation, Discrimination, Peer Dynamics, and Identity in Explaining Trends in the Racial Achievement Gap. National Bureau of Economic Research. Retrieved January 5, 2011 from: http://www.nber.org/papers/w16257