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deterioration of underwriting practices and a boom in mortgage lending did not benefit minorities and immigrant homeownership in the … particularly if they obtained the mortgage during subprime boom period from 2004 – 2006. Hispanics, on the other hand, did not … homeownership experience during the recent housing boom and housing bust was not homogenous across all groups in the U.S. The recent …
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Progress in narrowing black-white earnings differences has been far from continuous, with some of the apparent progress resulting from labor force withdrawal among lower-skilled African Americans. This paper builds on prior research and documents racial and ethnic differences in male earnings...
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Access to higher education begins with a student's decision whether and where to apply to college. This paper examines racial and ethnic differences in college application behavior of high school graduates, using two recent graduation cohorts from Texas. We estimate racial and ethnic differences...
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of depression, high cholesterol, and hypertension between Hispanics, non-Hispanic blacks, and non-Hispanics whites using … characteristics, while the sources of the utilization difference between the whites and Hispanics are split between the differences in …
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Act, this is the first study to do so for Hispanics. We follow a longitudinal sample of individuals who were in the labor …
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As of June 2020, the coronavirus pandemic has led to more than 2.3 million confirmed infections and 121 thousand fatalities in the United States, with starkly different incidence by race and ethnicity. Our study examines racial and ethnic disparities in confirmed COVID-19 cases across six...
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Many studies have explored the determinants of entering into entrepreneurship and the differences in self-employment rates across racial and ethnic groups. However, very little is known about the survival in entrepreneurship of immigrants to the U.S. and their descendants. Employing data from...
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. We contribute to the literature in distinguishing homeowners with mortgage payments and outright homeowners. We … homeowner, a homeowner with mortgage payments or a tenant by a mixed multinomial logit model. To be able to correctly identify … results show that homeowners with a mortgage exit unemployment first. Outright owners stay unemployed the longest. Tenants …
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amount of home equity that is expected to be released over a 10-year period through regular monthly mortgage payments. We …
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This paper studies the effects of private real estate collateral on entrepreneurial lending and entrepreneurial activity in the Netherlands. The residential collateral channel is especially relevant for sole-proprietors who own a business with unlimited liability. We used administrative data on...
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