National Asset Scorecard for Communities of Color

Project Summary

Emily Horn (Public Policy, Global Health), Aasha Reddy (Economics), and Shanchao Wang (Masters Economics) spent ten weeks working with data from the National Asset Scorecard for Communities of Color (NASCC), an ongoing survey project that gathers information about asset and debt of households at a detailed racial and national origin level. They worked closely with faculty and researchers from the Samuel Dubois Cook Center for Social Equity.

Themes and Categories
Public Policy
Data+
Year
2016

Project Results

After conducting exploratory data analysis on the entire survey, the team did a focussed study of wealth disparities among different types of Asian communities. They are in the final stages of submitting a journal publication.

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Faculty Sponsors

Project Manager

  • Khai Zaw, Statistical Research Associate, Cook Center

Participants

Disciplines Involved

  • Public Policy
  • Economics
  • Sociology
  • All quantitative STEM

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