A silver lining to white flight? White suburbanization and African-American homeownership, 1940-1980

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 78, Issue , 2013, Pages 71-80

  Boustan, Leah P ^a,b   Margo, Robert A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Filtering; Homeownership; Suburbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883759286     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2013.08.001     Document Type: Article

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