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Using an audit experiment carried out on of India’s largest real estate websites, we document striking variations between landlords' treatment of upper-caste Hindus, Other Backward Castes, Scheduled Castes, and Muslims. We find strong evidence of discrimination against Muslim applicants, both...
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disparities, and segregation. The use of race as a signal arises here, as in models of statistical discrimination, from imperfect … asymmetries. Minority groups necessarily suffer disproportionately from segregation, since the degree to which transactions …
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Racial segregation between American workplaces is greater today than it was a generation ago. This increase has … happened alongside the declines in within-establishment occupational segregation on which most prior research has focused. We … employment segregation over time. We demonstrate that the return of racial establishment segregation owes little to within …
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The existence of racially and ethnically diverse urban neighborhoods is one of our Nation's best-kept secrets. Instead of telling about these places, the media regularly report on the continued legacy of racial and ethnic tensions in the United States. As the Nation is becoming more racially and...
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The effect of discrimination on black-white racial segregation is studied using a confidential supplement of the Panel … rate faced by blacks. The fixed-effects estimates of segregation imply that home ownership is associated with a decline in … black-white segregation. This effect decreases slightly at higher income levels but increases substantially with the …
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disparities, and segregation. The use of race as a signal arises here, as in models of statistical discrimination, from imperfect … asymmetries. Minority groups necessarily suffer disproportionately from segregation, since the degree to which transactions …
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Political scientists have never systematically investigated patterns of residential segregation using comprehensive … datasets. In response, this paper examines an important research question involving race, segregation, and housing in the … segregation has a significant negative effect on African Americans receiving conventional, but not government-insured mortgages …
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We present a three-stage estimation procedure to recover willingness to pay for housing attributes. In the first stage, we estimate a non-parametric hedonic home price function. Second, we recover each consumer's taste parameters for product characteristics using first order conditions for...
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segregation of neighborhoods by race and ethnicity. The more subtle form of discrimination examined in this study is to charge …
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