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Title: Factors Affecting Hispanic Homeownership: A Review of the Literature

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Publication Year: 2007

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Abstract: Spatial separation of racial groups may reduce the probability that mutuallyacceptable singles of dierent races meet each other in the marriage market, orit may have no eect if market participants segment themselves. I find thatpeople in more segregated cities are signi?cantly less likely to end up in a raciallymixed marriage. I control for reverse causality and endogenous migration usinginstruments based on characteristics of local government and topography, andresidence prior to observation. The decrease in segregation in the typical citybetween 1980 and 2000 can explain roughly 25 percent of the observed increasein black man-white woman marriages. Approximately one fifth of the effect ofsegregation on black-white intermarriage operates through segregation?s impacton black-white differences in labor market and educational outcomes. The restis attributable to spatial mismatch.

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Authors: Herbert, Christopher E.; Clay, Elizabeth; Cortes, Alvaro; Wilson, Erin

Periodical (Full): Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research

Issue: 2

Volume: 9

Pages: 53-92

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Race and Ethnicity

Countries: United States