

Jiangnan Zeng
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Guelph
Jiangnan Zeng is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Guelph. She is an applied microeconomist with a focus on urban, public, and labor economics. Her research explores the impact of minority representation on economic behaviors and outcomes. She earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh, an MA in Public Policy from the University of Chicago, and a BS in Finance from Renmin University of China.
Recent work by Jiangnan Zeng
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Lessons from Sesame Street on media representation, racial biases, and voting
Representation in child media matters. Sesame Street’s positive representations of minorities and working women in 1969 had long run impacts on prejudices, influencing people’s propensity to vote for diverse candidates decades later.
Published 16.09.24