Estimating and decomposing changes in the White-Black homeownership gap from 2005 to 2011

• Main Authors: SEAH, Kiat Ying, FESSELMEYER, Eric, LE, Kien
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Decomposition; homeownership; housing bust; race; Race and Ethnicity; Urban Studies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research_all/3; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research_all/article/1002/viewcontent/0042098015619870.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This study evaluates the effects of the recent US housing bust on the White-Black homeownership gap by estimating and decomposing the changes in the distribution of the gap between 2005 and 2011. Our analysis shows that the housing bust did not affect the homeownership gap uniformly. In fact, we fin...