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Prof. Emeritus Salkever's new Policy Brief

New index for tracking economic well-being

Professor Emeritus David Salkever has written a new policy brief tracking trends in household economic well-being and its disparities among Black, Hispanic, and White Americans. 

The brief presents the development of a new index of economic well-being, the EWB-I, that is derived on an annual basis from the data in Federal Reserve Board’s annual Survey of Household Economic Decision-Making (SHED). 

Salkever concludes that racial disparities were higher from 2016-2019 than from 2013-2016, when economic growth was widely shared across racial/ethnic groups. 

Read Salkever's latest brief and our full collection of policy briefs here. 

Posted: July 17, 2020, 5:09 PM