A Genius Grant For An Economist Who Studies Race And Inequality

This year's MacArthur fellowships — popularly (and irresistibly) known as "genius grants" — were announced this morning. There was one economist on the list: Roland Fryer, a Harvard prof who studies race and inequality in America.

A few years back, Fryer published a study that found that children with "distinctively black" names fared no worse than other children on several socioeconomic measures, after controlling for circumstances at birth. (That study was co-authored with Steven Levitt, of Freakonomics fame.)

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