An e-book
by John Yinger

With contributions by: Lloyd Blanchard, Seok Joon Choi, Sun Jung Oh,
Jan Ondrich, Stephen L. Ross, Alex Stricker, and Bo Zhao

Version 2.1:  September 2015

Table of Contents

Part 1. Introduction and Overview

Chapter 1.1 – Introduction

Chapter 1.2.^J – John Yinger. “Measuring Racial Discrimination with Fair Housing Audits: Caught in the Act,” American Economic Review, Vol. 76, December 1986, pp. 881-893

Chapter 1.3.^J – John Yinger. “Evidence on Discrimination in Consumer Markets,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1998, pp. 23-40.

Chapter 1.4.^S – John Yinger. “Acts of Discrimination: Evidence from the 1989 Housing Discrimination Study,” Journal of Housing Economics, December 1991, pp. 318-346.

Part 2.  Measuring Discrimination

Chapter 2.1. – Sun Jung Oh and John Yinger. “What Have We Learned from Paired Testing in Housing Markets?”  Citiscape, Vol. 17 (3), 2015, pp. 15-60.

Chapter 2.2.^S – Jan Ondrich, Stephen Ross, and John Yinger, “How Common is Housing Discrimination? Improving on Traditional Measures,” Journal of Urban Economics, May 2000, pp. 470-500.

Part 3.  The Causes of Discrimination by Rental Agents

Chapter 3.1^S – Seok Joon Choi, Jan Ondrich, and John Yinger, “Changes in Rental Housing Discrimination since 1989,” Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, Vol. 10, 2008, pp. 301-330.

Chapter 3.2.^S – Seok Joon Choi, Jan Ondrich, and John Yinger, “Do Rental Agents Discriminate Against Minority Customers?  Evidence from the 2000 Housing Discrimination Study,” Journal of Housing Economics, March 2005, 14 (1), pp. 1-26.

Chapter 3.3.^S – Jan Ondrich, Alex Stricker, and John Yinger, “Do Landlords Discriminate?  The Incidence and Causes of Racial Discrimination in Rental Housing Markets,” Journal of Housing Economics, September 1999, pp. 185-204.

Part 4.  The Causes of Discrimination by Real Estate Brokers

Chapter 4.1.^S – Bo Zhao, Jan Ondrich, and John Yinger, “Why Do Real Estate Brokers Continue to Discriminate?  Evidence from the 2000 Housing Discrimination Study,” Journal of Urban Economics, May 2006, 59 (3), pp. 394-419.

Chapter 4.2. – Jan Ondrich, Stephen Ross, and John Yinger, “Now You See It, Now You Don’t:  Why Do Real Estate Agents Withhold Houses from Black Customers?”  Review of Economics and Statistics, November 2003, pp. 854-873.

Chapter 4.3.^S – Jan Ondrich, Stephen Ross, and John Yinger, “Geography of Housing Discrimination,”  Journal of Housing Research, Vol. 12, 2001, pp. 217-238.

Chapter 4.4.^J – Jan Ondrich, Alex Stricker, and John Yinger, “Do Real Estate Brokers Choose to Discriminate?  Evidence from the 1989 Housing Discrimination Study,” Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 64, April 1998, pp. 880-901.

Part 5.  The Consequences of Discrimination

Chapter 5.1. – John Yinger. “Hedonic Estimates of Neighborhood Ethnic Preferences,” Public Finance Review, Vol. 44 (1) pp.22-51.

Chapter 5.2.^S – John Yinger, “Cash in Your Face: The Cost of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Housing,” Journal of Urban Economics, November 1997, pp. 339-365.

Part 6.  Fair Housing Policy

Chapter 6.1. – John Yinger, “Sustaining the Fair Housing Act,” Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, Vol. 4, 1999, pp. 93-106.

Chapter 6.2. – John Yinger, “Housing Discrimination is Still Worth Worrying About,”  Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 9, 1998, pp. 893-927.

Chapter 6.3. – John Yinger, “Opening Doors:  How to Cut Discrimination by Supporting Neighborhood Integration,” Center for Policy Research Policy Brief 3/1995, (February), Syracuse University.

Part 7.  Discrimination in Mortgage Lending and Homeowner Insurance

Chapter 7.1. – Stephen Ross, and John Yinger, “Uncovering Discrimination: A Comparison of the Methods Used by Scholars and Civil Rights Enforcement Officials,” American Law and Economics Review, Fall 2006, pp. 562-614.

Chapter 7.2. – Stephen L. Ross and John Yinger, “Looking the Other Way: A Critique of the Fair Lending Enforcement System and a Plan to Fix it,” Center for Policy Research Policy Brief 24/2002, Syracuse University.

Chapter 7.3. – “Pricing, Performance, and Discrimination in Homeowner Insurance,” Working Paper, Center for Policy Research, November 2004.

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