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This paper examines racial and ethnic differences in high cost mortgage lending in seven diverse metropolitan areas from 2004-2007. Even after controlling for credit score and other key risk factors, African-American and Hispanic home buyers are 105 and 78 percent more likely to have high cost...
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African American bankruptcy filers are more likely to select Chapter 13 than other debtors, who opt instead for Chapter 7, which has higher success rates and lower attorney fees. Prior scholarship blames racial discrimination by bankruptcy attorneys. We present an alternative explanation:...
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of nearly 9 million mortgages originated between 2005 and 2009, we find that minority borrowers were significantly more … that the concentration of minority buyers in such loans explains a significant fraction of the difference in default rates … accelerants for many minority homeowners that experienced significant income and equity shocks during the Great Recession …
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