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The Damages and Distortions from Discrimination in the Rental Housing Market

Christensen, Peter; Timmins, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

By constraining an individual's choice during a search, housing discrimination distorts sorting decisions away from true preferences and results in a ceteris paribus reduction in welfare. This study combines a large-scale field experiment with a residential sorting model to derive...

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The damages and distortions from discrimination in the rental housing market

Christensen, Peter; Timmins, Christopher - In: The quarterly journal of economics 138 (2023) 4, pp. 2505-2557

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Minority Underrepresentation in U.S. Cities

Ricca, Federico; Trebbi, Francesco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper investigates the patterns of Minority representation and voter registration in U.S. municipal governments. For the period 1981-2020, we report substantial levels of strategic underrepresentation of African American, Asian, and Latino voters in U.S. local politics. Disproportionality...

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What the students for fair admissions cases reveal about racial preferences

Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - 2022

Using detailed admissions data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC cases, we examine how racial preferences for under-represented minorities (URMs) affect their admissions to Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill. At Harvard, the admit rates for typical African American applicants are on...

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What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal About Racial Preferences

Arcidiacono, Peter; Kinsler, Josh; Ransom, Tyler - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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Mortality Differentials, the Racial and Ethnic Retirement Wealth Gap, and the Great Pandemic

Wolff, Edward N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

but narrowed between Hispanics and (non-Hispanic) whites. When the definition of wealth is expanded to incorporate Social … Blacks, and 13.1 percent among Hispanics. As a result, while mean augmented wealth dipped only 1.2 percent among whites, it … fell 6.7 percent among Black households and 7.3 percent among Hispanics. The effect was even stronger on median values …

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Minority underrepresentation in U.S. cities

Ricca, Federico; Trebbi, Francesco - 2022

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Racial Differences in the Total Rate of Return on Owner-Occupied Housing

Diamond, Rebecca; Diamond, William F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We quantify racial differences in the total rate of return on housing in a nationally representative sample of homeowners from 1974-2021. We develop a new method to estimate the rental value of each owner-occupied house, using a house's resale value to proxy for unobservable quality. Black and...

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Field experiment tests for discrimination against Hispanics in the U.S. rental housing market

Hanson, Andrew; Santas, Michael - In: Southern economic journal 81 (2014) 1, pp. 135-167

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Racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19: evidence from six large cities

Benitez, Joseph A.; Courtemanche, Charles; Yelowitz, … - 2020

As of June 2020, the coronavirus pandemic has led to more than 2.3 million confirmed infections and 121 thousand fatalities in the United States, with starkly different incidence by race and ethnicity. Our study examines racial and ethnic disparities in confirmed COVID-19 cases across six...

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