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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 …
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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 …
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The wage gap between African-Americans and white Americans is substantial in the US and has slightly narrowed over the past 30 years. Today, blacks have almost achieved the same educational level as whites. There is reason to believe that discrimination driven by prejudice plays a part in...
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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 …
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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 …
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The historical evolution of racial differences in income in the 20th century United States has been examined intensively by economists, but the evolution of racial differences in wealth has been examined far less. This paper uses IPUMS data to study trends in racial differences in home ownership...
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homeownership but the long-run growth in levels has been similar for both groups, and therefore the racial gap measured in …
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"African American homebuyers continue to pay more for and get less from homeownership. This book explains how fervent …
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