Race and the value of owner - occupied housing : 1940 - 1990

The authors are, respectively, Assistant Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 37235; and Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University, and Visiting Senior Scholar, The Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Blithewood, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504. Earlier versions of some of the material in this paper were presented at conferences at Lehigh University, Stanford University, and the 2000 ASSA meetings in Boston. We are grateful to participants at these conferences, and to Stanley Engerman, Edward Glaeser, Jens Ludwig, Peyton McCrary and workshop participants at the NBER, the University of Mississippi, and Yale University for helpful comments.