Overcoming Compound Racial Inequity Code Repository

This repository contains code used in the Overcoming Compound Racial Inequity: Policies and Costs for Closing the Black-White Wealth Gap RAND Report.

All figures and tables from our analysis can be reproduced with publicly available data and free software.

Dependencies

We used R version 4.2.1 (2022-06-23) and RStudio 2022.07.1 to perform this analysis. Using an up-to-date R installation (i.e., R> 4.0.0), run the R/00_install_dependencies.R script to install all dependencies. Alternatively, open the racial-wealth-gap.Rproj file with RStudio and use renv::restore() to use the same package versions we used.

Reproducing the Analysis

Open the racial-wealth-gap.Rproj project with RStudio and run the run_analysis.R script to reproduce our analysis. The script takes about 30-45 minutes to run. Outputs will be created in the ./outputs folder. Alternatively, one can step through the scripts listed in the run_analysis.R file to reproduce specific steps of the analysis.

Folder structure

• ./R/scripts: contains the scripts used in the analysis,. Run the scripts in that folder in the specified order to reproduce our analysis. Alternatively, run the run_analysis.R script to perform all steps in the analysis.
• ./R/funs: contains the functions and classes used in the analysis.
• ./inputs: contains all analysis inputs. SCF microdata from 2019 (1.3 Gb) will be automatically downloaded to this folder.
• ./outputs: houses intermediate outputs created by the scripts.

Contact

Reach out to Pedro Nascimento de Lima for questions related to this repository.

License

Copyright (C) 2022 by The RAND Corporation. This repository is released as open-source software under a GPL-2.0 license. See the LICENSE file.