This study examines racial and ethnic discrimination in discrete choices by real estate brokers using national audit data from the 2000 Housing Discrimination Study. It uses a fixed-effects logit model to estimate the probability that discrimination occurs and to study the causes of...

This paper studies racial and ethnic discrimination in discrete choices by real estate brokers using national audit data from the 2000 Housing Discrimination Study. It uses a fixed effects logit model to estimate the probability that discrimination occurs and to study the causes of...

Using audit data from the 2000 Housing Discrimination Study and a fixed-effects Poisson model, this paper examines discrimination in the number of houses shown to homeseekers. Unlike previous studies, it considers auditors' actual socioeconomic characteristics to minimize the estimation bias....