In recent years, as the homeownership rate in the United States reached its highest level in history, homeownership … Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) and 2006 American Community Survey (ACS) to study the trajectory into homeownership of … homeownership. The unique (merged) dataset enables the authors to distinguish assimilation (length of residence) from immigration …

In recent years, as the homeownership rate in the United States reached its highest level in history, homeownership … Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) and 2006 American Community Survey (ACS) to study the trajectory into homeownership of … homeownership. The unique (merged) dataset enables the authors to distinguish assimilation (length of residence) from immigration …

This paper uses a semiparametric homeownership model to estimate and to decompose the household-level white …–black homeownership gap into an endowment component and a residual component across the distribution of homeownership rates. We find that … the racial gap differs across homeownership rates and that studies that examine the gap only at the mean may be misleading …

paper we focus on homeownership among a subset of singles, the never married. In particular we investigate potential … differences in the relationship between several homeownership determinants for singles in comparison to the married. In addition …, we test for heterogeneity across race and skill level in the gender gap in homeownership and the probability of …