Where does racial discrimination occur? An experimental analysis across neighborhood and housing unit characteristics

Discrimination and neighborhood effects: understanding racial differentials in US housing prices

Because race and neighborhood characteristics are strongly correlated, studies of racial housing price differentials have yielded results that vary widely depending on the types of neighborhood controls used. This paper shows that even with relatively thorough neighborhood controls, there is still evidence that correlation between the error term and regressors is a source of bias. While recent ...

Critique of Racial Discrimination in Private Housing

Racial discrimination and physical activity among low-income-housing residents.

BACKGROUND Although discrimination has been identified as a potential determinant of existing racial/ethnic health disparities, no studies have investigated whether racial discrimination contributes to disparities in physical activity. PURPOSE The primary aim of the current study was to examine the association between interpersonal racial discrimination and physical activity. METHODS Baseli...

Neighborhood racial discrimination and the development of major depression.

This study examined the impact of neighborhood racial discrimination on the development of major depressive disorder (MDD) in a sample of African American women. Participants were 499 women from Georgia and Iowa with no history of MDD who were followed for 9 to 11 years. Several neighborhood characteristics (community social disorder, community cohesion, and community racism) and individual cha...

Does Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Vary across Minority Groups? Evidence from a Field Experiment

We conduct a large-scale audit discrimination study to measure labor market discrimination across different minority groups in Australia – a country where one quarter of the population was born overseas. To denote ethnicity, we use distinctively Anglo-Saxon, Indigenous, Italian, Chinese, and Middle Eastern names, and our goal is a comparison across multiple ethnic groups rather than focusing on...