Changes in the white-black house value distribution gap from 1997 to 2005

• Main Authors: FESSELMEYER, Eric, LE, Kien T., SEAH, Kiat Ying
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: House value gap; Race; Decomposition; Race and Ethnicity; Real Estate
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/12; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1011/viewcontent/1_s2.0_S0166046212000464_main.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper examines the white-black house value gap across the entire value distribution. Instead of using standard conditional mean analysis and decomposition methods (via OLS regression), we estimate and decompose the changes in the white-black house value gap from 1997 to 2005 using quantile regr...