Adding Race to the Equation

The Broward Times › October 19, 2009

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As a result of his research, [Roland Fryer] says, "I know definitely that similar home environments produce similar results, that the crack epidemic is responsible for 90 percent of the quadrupling of black youth homicide in the late 80's and early 90's, half of the increase in infant mortality, and one quarter of the increase in fetal death.

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Adding Race to the Equation

27-year-old Roland Fryer is assistant professor of economics at Harvard University, Faculty Research Fellow for the National Bureau of economic R...

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