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

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 132-141

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

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Qatar University   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Decomposition; House value gap; Race

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HOUSING MARKET; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RACIAL DISPARITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84873209722     PISSN: 01660462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2012.06.003     Document Type: Article

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