Why do real estate brokers continue to discriminate? Evidence from the 2000 Housing Discrimination Study

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 394-419

  Zhao, Bo ^a   Ondrich, Jan ^b   Yinger, John ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF BOSTON   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit; Fixed effects logit; Housing discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846409523     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2005.12.001     Document Type: Article

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