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towards immigrants combined with data on ethnic discrimination from a field experiment in the Swedish housing market to re …
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This paper use spatial econometric models to test for racial preferences in a small urban housing market. Identifying … three strategies to redress this problem: (1) we focus on housing price differences across microneighborhoods in the small … have lower housing prices. However, racial price discounts are no longer significant when we account for the spatial …
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on the basis of defendant race. These results are consistent with racial prejudice on the part of white jurors, black …. Simulations of the model suggest that jurors of each race are heterogeneous in the standards of evidence that they require to … convict and that both black and white defendants would prefer to face jurors of the same race. …
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, whereas the former ignore race. This paper traces this disjuncture to two sources. What is missing in the social science view … discrimination in credit markets have, ironically, had the effect of making race analytically invisible. Because of these explanatory … flood of mortgage brokers that accompanied the 2000s housing boom educe the proportion of minority borrowers who were …
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and recovered only partially during the 2001-2005 housing boom. The 1980-2000 decline in young home ownership occurred as …
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In October 2003, a new flight regime was introduced at Zurich airport that significantly changed the levels of noise pollution in surrounding communities. We investigate the impact of the new flight policy on apartment prices using a hedonic price model and a non-linear difference-in-differences...
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In recent years, as the homeownership rate in the United States reached its highest level in history, homeownership itself remained unevenly distributed, particularly along racial and ethnic lines. By using data from the 2000 Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) and 2006 American...
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This paper proposes an extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition from two to a continuum of comparison groups. The proposed decomposition is then estimated for the case of racial wage differences in urban Peru, exploiting a novel data set that allows the capturing of mestizaje (racial mixtures).
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This paper explores the evolution of Brazilian wage gaps by gender and skin color over a decade (1996-2006), using the matching comparison methodology developed by Ñopo (2008). In Brazil, racial wage gaps are more pronounced than those found along the gender divide, although both noticeably...
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by race, and attempts to explain these differences. The role of cognition in health determination has received only … limited empirical attention, and even less is known about how race may affect this relationship. Using data from the NLSY, I …
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