A household-level decomposition of the white-black homeownership gap

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 52-62

  Fesselmeyer, Eric ^a   Le, Kien T ^b   Seah, Kiat Ying ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Qatar University   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Homeownership; Race; Segregation

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; HOMEOWNERSHIP; HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RACE; RACIAL SEGREGATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79960889386     PISSN: 01660462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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