The F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics welcomed Roland G. Fryer, Jr., the Henry Lee Professor of Economics and faculty director of the Education Innovation Laboratory at Harvard University , for the inaugural Buchanan Speaker Series event on “Education, Inequality, and Incentives.” Professor Fryer discussed his research on education reform and his efforts to find and test practical solutions to the educational achievement gap in the United States.

The Buchanan Speaker Series promotes Nobel laureate James Buchanan’s intellectual legacy by applying Buchanan’s ideas to the pressing matters of our time. Read more about this event series at mercatus.org/buchananseries.

To learn more about the Hayek Program, visit ppe.mercatus.org.