Race and home ownership from the Civil War to the present
By: William J. Collins, Robert A. Margo
Contributors: Margo, Robert A. (Robert Andrew), 1954-; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16665; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16665.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: "We present estimates of home ownership for African-American and white households from 1870 to 2007.  The estimates pertain to a sample of households headed by adult men participating in the labor force but the substantive findings are unchanged if the analysis is extended to all households.  Over the entire period African-American households in the sample increased their home ownership rate by 46 percentage points, whereas the rate for white households increased by 20 percentage points.  Thus, in the long run, the racial gap declined by 26 percentage points.  Remarkably, 25 of the 26 point long-run narrowing occurred between 1870 and 1910.  Since 1910, both white and black households have increased their rates of homeownership but the long-run growth in levels has been similar for both groups, and therefore the racial gap measured in percentage points was approximately constant over the past century"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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