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Housing Inequality in the United States: Explaining the White-Minority Disparities in Homeownership

Sanjaya DeSilva Department of Economics, and Levy Economics Institute, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Yuval Elmelech Department of Sociology, and Levy Economics Institute, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY, USA
Pages 1-26 | Received 01 Jul 2009, Published online: 12 Dec 2011

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